Colorado

The Colorado River Water Conservation District approved a request to partially fund the permitting costs for a dam and reservoir project in northwest Colorado.

Colorado West Slope water officials turned up the volume on the call for action around water and climate change, calling it a “train wreck.”

Colorado communities have identified projects to help ensure there's enough water for the state's people, farms and wildlife.

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

Steamboat Springs is trying to comply with state regulations and also cool down chronically high temperatures in an impaired stretch of the Yampa River.

Colorado’s water forecast, already strained by back-to-back drought years, is unlikely to brighten this fall and winter.

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.