Health

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

On an early morning, a quiet Denver neighborhood was temporarily transformed into a construction zone. A boring machine on the road outside someone’s home pointed a long, thin drill...

Wastewater can inform public health departments of new variants in the community, but the data collected is still inconclusive.

Grand County officials are searching for ways to prevent harmful algae blooms and weed growth in Grand Lake.

A synthetic chemical’s appearance in public water supply wells raises questions of how to protect the public from unknown health hazards.

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