Colorado

The Colorado River Water Conservation District staff plans to present its own framework for a water-savings plan at its October board meeting.

Environment and recreation projects represented the largest slice of the pie at $6.6 million.

This page features photos of Blue Mesa Reservoir, along the Gunnison River in Colorado's Curecanti National Recreation Area. Created by 390-foot Blue Mesa Dam, the reservoir has a capacity of 829,500 acre-feet, making it...

A project in the Upper Eagle River watershed proposes to send water from the Colorado River basin to the fast-growing Front Range. 

In an effort to prop up water levels at Lake Powell, water managers are negatively impacting recreation on Colorado’s biggest man-made lake. 

A proposed reservoir, pipeline and water exchange in western Colorado could impact fish and environmental flows.

A federal agency aims to offset rising costs linked to Lake Powell’s inability to produce as much hydropower due to drought.

A state group examining water speculation identified eight ideas to stop water hoarding, but failed to provide legislative recommendations.

There's still no consensus about what should be done to prevent investors from profiting off of speculating on the state’s water. 

A repeat of dry conditions in 2021 is making Colorado’s continuing drought across swaths of the state’s Western Slope even more devastating.