Health

Colorado’s virus-related restrictions are forcing commercial rafting companies to create social distance on unruly rivers and face the potential for smaller crowds.

One year after it launched one of the largest lead treatment programs in the United States, Denver Water is slightly ahead of schedule.

Two non-profit groups in Crested Butte work to clean up waters still polluted from the Keystone and Standard mines.

The Colorado health department is investigating a plume causing high levels of forever chemicals in the raw water supply of Adams County.

Some Colorado residents have been experiencing drinking water contamination for years. When the water will be safe to drink is unknown.

These chemicals are everywhere. They last forever. They’re expensive to get rid of. And many Californians don’t even know they’re drinking them.

Refrigerator filters are an attractive target for counterfeiters, who may also be putting consumers at risk by selling filters that are not merely ineffective, but unsafe.

Western states are still able to provide relatively affordable water, but that could change as utilities try to recoup losses associated with the pandemic and begin to pay for the massive repairs and upgrades to their systems that were on the drawing board before COVID-19 struck.

It's unclear whether a new law could improve water quality in the Eagle River Village park, but legislators want to pressure owners to do more.

Dust suppression and habitat restoration are key elements in a plan to aid the Salton Sea, whose ills have been a sore point in Colorado River management.