Geography

Colorado officials are preparing for a future with less water by developing rules for users to measure how much they're taking from streams.

Megafires triggered by drought and climate change have ravaged major Colorado water systems, and recent snowmelt will only make things worse.

As California’s new requirements for forever chemicals kick in, small providers in remote towns struggle to clean up their water.

A new bill seeks to resolve the debate over how ranchers and other water users can maintain their historical water use when dry conditions trigger cutbacks.

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...

A multibillion-dollar reservoir and pipeline project may one day pull more than 50,000 acre-feet of water per year from the South Platte River.

Colorado has a new turf replacement program that will finance residential areas to switch their yards to more water efficient landscaping.

Once criticized for being a profligate user of water, fast-growing Phoenix has taken some major steps — including banking water in underground reservoirs, slashing per-capita use, and recycling wastewater — in anticipation of the day when the flow from the Colorado River ends.

Water managers from the Colorado's River Upper Basin visit the Lower Basin on a fact-finding trip.

Colorado lawmakers have suspended an attempt to prohibit outside investors from profiting off the state’s water.