Geography

This page in our free multimedia library features photos of Abiquiu Lake, which impounds the Rio Chama in northwest New Mexico. Situated between the Sangre de Cristo and San Juan...

A powerful group that steers Utah’s water policy keeps pushing for costly infrastructure over meaningful conservation efforts.

Imposing hefty taxes on speculative water sales, requiring that water rights purchased by investors be held for several years before they can be resold, and requiring special state approval of such sales are three ideas that might help Colorado protect its water resources from speculators.

The Water Desk is excited to announce new grants to support water journalism connected to New Mexico and the Rio Grande Basin.

Farm water is critical to Colorado’s effort to balance a growing population with a water system stressed by drought and climate change.

In Diamond Valley, Nevada, farmers are looking to protect their future — and testing the limits of the state’s water laws.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Five large wildfires have burned tens of thousands of acres in the forests around this northern Arizona city in the last 15 years. Monsoon floods after...

Western water ​experts are working to not only conserve water, but to also reuse as much wastewater as possible​,​ including ​through direct potable reuse​.​

With growing water shortages on the Colorado River, tribal communities are demanding a bigger role in river management and access to water they legally own but have never actually...

Water conservation in California’s southern desert is causing an environmental disaster as the Salton Sea quickly shrinks.