Traveler Special Report: Grand Canyon’s Struggling River
Glen Canyon Dam, climate change and invasive plant species are threatening the Colorado River.
Funding shortfalls, bureaucratic barriers hobble efforts to restore Colorado’s fire-scarred water systems
Funding shortfalls are hobbling efforts to clean up watersheds and protect drinking water for more than 1 million Coloradans.
Basin roundtables push back on Colorado Water Conservation Board’s proposed code of conduct
The state water board is encouraging roundtables to adopt a code of conduct, but some Western Slope roundtables are pushing back.
As iconic Yampa River flows drop, Colorado moves to tighten oversight
With drought continuing to grip the American West, Colorado is declaring one of its last, mostly free-flowing rivers as over-appropriated.
A dam in Grand County is showing an increasing risk of failure, prompting a...
Problems with a Grand County, Colorado dam are turning out to be worse than previously thought, and may be tough to plan for moving forward.
Colorado is examining water speculation, and finding it’s ‘all the problems’ in one
Water speculation has been sparking debate in Colorado over the last few months.
In the heart of the San Joaquin Valley, two groundwater sustainability agencies try to...
Agencies in two counties are pursuing different approaches to address overdraft and meet requirements of California’s groundwater law.
Homestake Reservoir release proves tricky to track
Front Range water providers released water downstream to test how to get it to the state line in the event of a Colorado River Compact call.
After Clean Water Act setback, state to ask lawmakers for new authority
State health officials will request to fast-track authority over streams left unprotected after a 2020 rollback of Clean Water Act.
Roaring Fork on its way to 100 more acre-feet of flows
Pitkin County took the final step in a years-long effort to get more water into the often water-short upper Roaring Fork River.