Tip sheet: monitoring the West’s snowpack
What’s the current state of the snowpack? How have conditions changed over the season?
Is renewable energy’s future dammed?
A proposed hydroelectric project on the Little Colorado River shows the tricky trade-offs in transitioning from fossil fuels.
Drought and dry soils again will diminish Colorado’s spring runoff
Water forecasting agencies in Colorado have released their April streamflow predictions, confirming what many already knew: Drought and dry soils will diminish rivers this spring.
Photos: Lake Las Vegas aerials, May 2021
This page features aerial photos of Lake Las Vegas in Henderson, Nevada.
Lake Las Vegas, which has been filled with Colorado River water, is a reservoir that was created along...
Colorado River experts say some management options don’t go far enough to address scarcity,...
Feds release draft report on how to share shrinking river
Photos: Colorado River Indian Tribes Reservation
This page features aerial and ground-based photos of the Colorado River Indian Tribes Reservation near Parker, Arizona.
Created by the federal government in 1865, the Colorado River Indian Tribes (CRIT)...
A treasure hunt for wild springs in Arizona’s desert
In Arizona, finding water in the wilderness means discovering a source of life.
Report: Colorado River ranch water savings hit 42 percent
Colorado’s high altitude hay meadows could be re-operated to yield more than 40 percent in water savings, according to a new report.
Blue Mesa Reservoir releases to prop up Lake Powell impacting recreation
In an effort to prop up water levels at Lake Powell, water managers are negatively impacting recreation on Colorado’s biggest man-made lake.
Photos: Fontenelle Dam and Reservoir, August 2021
This page features imagery of Fontenelle Reservoir along the Green River in southwestern Wyoming.
Created by Fontenelle Dam, a 139-foot earthfill dam, Fontenelle Reservoir has a storage capacity of 345,000...