Issues

With millions of people under stay-at-home orders, water is sitting in the pipes of empty office buildings and gyms, getting old and potentially dangerous.

Earth's biggest rivers are streams of warm water vapor in the atmosphere that can cause huge rain and snowfall over land. Climate change is making them longer, wetter and stronger.

A group of ranchers is helping scientists learn more about what happens to pastures that receive less irrigation water.

Several groups are studying demand management, underscoring persistent tensions between the Western Slope and Front Range water managers.

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.

The Drought Contingency Plan for the Colorado River is a historic agreement but it has some serious shortcomings.

The Colorado River has been dammed, diverted, and slowed by reservoirs, strangling the life out of a once-thriving ecosystem. But in the U.S. and Mexico, efforts are underway to revive sections of the river and restore vital riparian habitat for native plants, fish, and wildlife.

A new bill seeks to resolve the debate over how ranchers and other water users can maintain their historical water use when dry conditions trigger cutbacks.

This photo gallery features images shot during a Lighthawk aerial tour of water-related sites along Colorado's Front Range. After...

Farmers, large and small, are beginning to grapple with what the state’s first major groundwater regulation means for them.