Health

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

Water utilities initiated emergency action plans, asking hundreds of employees to work from home to limit the virus’ spread and to help protect the workers needed to operate water treatment and delivery systems.

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

Residents of a mobile home park in Edwards say their well water tastes, looks and smells bad.

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.

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

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

For the last two years, Robin Daigle has had to boil her tap water before pouring it in ice cube trays.  She boils tap water if she needs it to...

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...

New Mexico is behind in water inspections for the third year in a row, leaving water quality in question.