Drought

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is offering $500,000 for a better tool to measure how much water snowflakes contain.

Western cities are using new tactics to address shrinking water supplies due to drought and population growth.

Upper Basin states that created their own drought contingency plan still haven’t agreed on the biggest, most controversial element of the plan.

Colorado West Slope water officials turned up the volume on the call for action around water and climate change, calling it a “train wreck.”

The Gila River Indian Community is ensuring that members can use their own resources while helping solve water supply problems in the region.

Colorado’s water forecast, already strained by back-to-back drought years, is unlikely to brighten this fall and winter.

This page features photos of Flaming Gorge Reservoir, which impounds the Green River in Wyoming and Utah. The Green River is the most significant tributary of the Colorado River. Flaming...

This page features photos of Blue Mesa Reservoir, along the Gunnison River in Colorado's Curecanti National Recreation Area. Created by 390-foot Blue Mesa Dam, the reservoir has a capacity of 829,500 acre-feet, making it...

The releases from Flaming Gorge, Blue Mesa and Navajo reservoirs are designed to bolster hydropower production at the ailing Lake Powell.

In an effort to prop up water levels at Lake Powell, water managers are negatively impacting recreation on Colorado’s biggest man-made lake.