Geography

The Colorado River Water Conservation District staff plans to present its own framework for a water-savings plan at its October board meeting.

This page in our free multimedia library features aerial photos of the Rio Grande and San Luis Valley in southern Colorado. The Rio Grande begins in the San Juan Mountains and travels...

This page features ground-based photos of Blue Mesa Reservoir, along the Gunnison River in Curecanti National Recreation Area. Created by 390-foot Blue Mesa Dam, the reservoir has a capacity of...

Agencies share lessons learned as they recover from fires that destroyed facilities, contaminated supplies and devastated their customers

This page in our free multimedia library features aerial photos of the Rio Grande Gorge, near Taos, N.M. The Rio Grande Gorge, a striking canyon of volcanic basalt up to...

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

State Sen. Kevin Priola traveled to Israel in 2022 and came away with an idea: If the arid country can produce drinking water by taking the salt out of...

Despite emergency releases from upper basin reservoirs to prop up Lake Powell, levels are still projected to dip below a critical threshold.

As climate change brings warmer weather, Westerners are looking for ways to protect the region's rivers and streams. In a special report for The Water Desk, Jerd Smith of...

This page features drone-captured imagery of Dillon Reservoir in Summit County, Colorado. Created by a 231-foot-tall earth-fill dam, Dillon Reservoir contains over 250,000 acre-feet of water when at full capacity....