Colorado

State officials are hoping dire climate predictions and water shortages will convince Coloradans to get involved in planning how to share a dwindling resource.

Farmers and ranchers in Colorado have submitted proposals to help restore the Colorado River, but the impacts remain uncertain.

Several groups are studying demand management, underscoring persistent tensions between the Western Slope and Front Range water managers.

It’s hard to generate money from a sports-betting tax when COVID-19 has removed athletes from the fields, courts and stadiums where they normally play.

Amid one of the hottest summers on record for Colorado, Dillon Reservoir is 94% full, nearly 5 feet below its capacity. This level of drought has been manageable this year for Denver Water partly because of the 2018-19 winter.

It has been a rough year for the Shoshone hydropower plant in Glenwood Canyon. First, ice jammed the plant’s spillway; then a wildfire burned down its transmission lines.

State health officials will request to fast-track authority over streams left unprotected after a 2020 rollback of Clean Water Act.

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

Colorado has approved a $1.9 million snow measuring initiative that will help forecast how much water mountain snowpack will likely generate.

Wastewater can inform public health departments of new variants in the community, but the data collected is still inconclusive.