Geography

For more than 4½ years, state engineers in Colorado have expressed concerns that a conservancy district has not proven there is a need for the water, which would be stored in the proposed White River reservoir and dam project.

For decades, water managers and environmentalists have worked to keep a critical stretch of the drought-stressed Colorado River healthy enough to support endangered fish. This year, they’re getting a...

With a warming climate continuing to rob streams and rivers of their flows, talk in Colorado has resumed about how to limit growing water demand for residential use.

A new economic study suggests that a wide-scale water conservation program in Colorado could cost more than $120 million.

The razorback sucker has survived in the river for more than 3 million years. Climate change could end that.

Endangered fish in the Yampa River may benefit as coal-fired power stations close in the next 10 to 15 years.

There's still no consensus about what should be done to prevent investors from profiting off of speculating on the state’s water. 

This page features photos of the Fryingpan River on Colorado's Western Slope near Basalt. The Fryingpan River is a tributary of the Roaring Fork River, which in turn flows into...

The Zuni tribe's homeland is one of the most parched sections of the country. The tribe has already declared three drought emergencies in the last 15 years. Will it survive the next one?

Water won big in Colorado on Election Day as voters in two multi-county districts approved property tax increases to fund water projects and programs.