A dam in Grand County is showing an increasing risk of failure, prompting a...
Problems with a Grand County, Colorado dam are turning out to be worse than previously thought, and may be tough to plan for moving forward.
Hundreds of comments submitted over Holy Cross Wilderness water export proposal
Forty years after the Holy Cross Wilderness Area was created, an effort to explore tapping its water has generated more than 500 public comments.
Saving a river
In the arid Southwest, where water scarcity often divides competing interests, an innovative approach could become the model for future cooperation.
Brad Hicks shows you...
Photos and videos: Paonia Reservoir, December 2020
This page features drone-captured photos and videos of Paonia Reservoir on Colorado's Western Slope.
Located 16 miles northeast of Paonia, the reservoir lies...
Decades later, abandoned mines continue to haunt Colorado’s waterways
According to a 2017 study, there are over 23,000 abandoned mines across Colorado and 1,800 miles of streams that are impaired due to pollutants related to acid mine drainage.
Photos and videos: Dolores River, September 2020
This page features drone-captured images and videos of the Dolores River in southwest Colorado.
The Dolores River begins in the San Juan Mountains and travels...
Cutting back on irrigation
In a pilot project in Colorado, farmers are reducing irrigation on their hay fields and monitoring the results, to learn if they can send...
Colorado River emergency actions leave root causes of crisis unaddressed
On April 17, the federal government ordered emergency measures to prevent water levels at Lake Powell from falling so low that Glen Canyon Dam,...
Forget Western water war: local managers choose partnership
Collaboration keeps water flowing
Budget-strapped Wyoming towns race for federal funds to fix aging water, sewer systems
Waking up to long-overdue system upgrades, dozens of towns that were awarded federal ARPA dollars may see them "clawed back" for lack of resources to complete paperwork.