Geography

Last update: September 21, 2022 Percent of total capacity Source: US Bureau of Reclamation

Front Range water providers recently released water stored in Homestake Reservoir to test how to get water downstream to the state line in the event of a Colorado River Compact call.

Scientist Adrienne Marshall explains why these extreme snow years are expected to decline in our warming world.

The State of Colorado has activated the municipal portion of its emergency drought plan for only the second time in history as several cities say they need to prepare for what is almost certainly going to be a dangerously dry 2021.

For the last two years, Robin Daigle has had to boil her tap water before pouring it in ice cube trays.  She boils tap water if she needs it to...

In Arizona, finding water in the wilderness means discovering a source of life. 

The crisis on the Colorado River is not waiting for the state of Colorado to develop a program to avoid water shortages.

This page in our free multimedia library features photos of the low snowpack in Colorado's Rocky Mountains during the 2025-2026 snow drought. This collection includes imagery from Colorado ski areas...

This page features aerial photos of the Granite Reef Underground Storage Project (GRUSP), near Mesa, Arizona. Roughly four miles downstream from the Granite Reef Diversion Dam, the GRUSP is a...

A recent study of a Colorado demand-management program found that the benefits would be comparable to the negative secondary impacts.