The megadrought hits Lake Powell
In the 1960s, Glen Canyon Dam created Lake Powell, the 186-mile-long reservoir intended to store Colorado River flows from the Rocky Mountains. With the flows reduced by drought and...
Uranium cleanup in Moab
After more than a decade of work, a federal cleanup project along the Colorado River in Utah is still removing radioactive uranium tailings that could pose a threat to...
Photos and videos: Green River, October 2020
This page features drone footage and ground-based photos of the Green River, near Moab, Utah, and north of Canyonlands National Park.
The Green, which begins in Wyoming's Wind River...
Map: Explore drone, aerial and terrestrial imagery from The Water Desk
Use this interactive map to browse our expanding collection of free-to-use photos and videos captured by drones, planes and ground-based photographers.
Drone videos and photos: Goosenecks of the San Juan River, December 2019
This page features drone footage and still imagery of the Goosenecks of the San Juan River as well as the area around Mexican Hat, Utah and Kayenta, Arizona.
The...
Drone videos and photos: uranium tailings and Colorado River near Moab, Utah, December 2019
This page features drone footage and still imagery of the Colorado River around Moab, Utah. Near downtown Moab, a large uranium mill tailings pile is located close to the...
Colorado River Econ 101
By Kurt Repanshek, National Parks Traveler
From the high country in Rocky Mountain National Park a muddy flush of water rushes downstream, through western Colorado. It turns left, going south...
Climate change reducing Colorado River runoff
By Kurt Repanshek, National Parks Traveler
By mid-century, annual runoff into the Colorado River could be reduced by nearly a third as declining snowpack leads to greater evaporation of snowmelt,...
Not enough water and too many invasives at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
Years of drought, upstream diversions and impoundments, and an overly optimistic forecast of Colorado River flows, have sapped the river once literally called Grand.