Health

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

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?

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

Colorado enacted five major pieces of water legislation, including providing more water for environmental flows and studying how to limit water speculation.

Renee Hoffman was never thrilled about the water quality at her house in Sleepy Bear Mobile Home Park on the outskirts of Steamboat Springs. “It just didn’t taste great,” she...

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.

Julia Bernal, director of the Pueblo Action Alliance, talks to Water Desk Director Mitch Tobin about the legacy of colonialism in New Mexico and its impact on water issues.

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.

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

Colorado joins three other states in approving a new rule that clears the way for drinking treated wastewater.