Geography

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

Managing how water moves from one side of the Continental Divide to the other requires cautious timing and accurate forecasting.

Colorado officials have drafted a bill aimed at addressing a tension between stream restoration projects and water rights holders.

Despite a drought and below-normal reservoir levels, communities remain split on permanent outdoor watering restrictions.

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...

Western states are still able to provide relatively affordable water, but that could change as utilities try to recoup losses associated with the pandemic and begin to pay for the massive repairs and upgrades to their systems that were on the drawing board before COVID-19 struck.

Colorado’s river recreation community is asking for more recognition in the update to the state’s Water Plan.

In an effort to prop up water levels at Lake Powell, water managers are negatively impacting recreation on Colorado’s biggest man-made lake. 

At the heart of a potential program is a reduction in water use in an attempt to send up to 500,000 acre-feet downstream to Lake Powell to bolster thereservoir and meet 1922 Colorado River Compact obligations.

This page features images and footage shot with a GoPro camera during a pilot-only Lighthawk flight above Lake Mead and Hoover Dam, along the Colorado River near Las Vegas,...