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Irrigators in Northwest Colorado are facing a sea change in how they use their water, and many ranchers are greeting such a shift with reluctance and suspicion.

A new bill seeks to resolve the debate over how ranchers and other water users can maintain their historical water use when dry conditions trigger cutbacks.

Though many agricultural interests and water utilities support the new Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule, as it is known, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and Patrick Pfaltzgraff, director of the state’s Water Quality Control Division, said they will take legal action to protect streams that are no longer subject to federal oversight.

Front Range water providers recently released water stored in Homestake Reservoir to test how to get water downstream to the state line in the event of a Colorado River Compact call.

Studies have shown that testing wastewater offers an early warning signal about the prevalance of the coronavirus in the community.

There are growing concerns that many regions of the world will face water crises in the coming decades as rising temperatures exacerbate drought conditions.

A cyberattack in Florida has shown that outdated water control technologies have become more exposed to hacking.

Colorado’s high altitude hay meadows could be re-operated to yield more than 40 percent in water savings, according to a new report.

New climate data shows a north/south split in streamflow declines in the Colorado River Basin.

Flooding is the most frequent and costliest natural disaster in the United States, and its costs are projected to rise as the climate warms.