Issues

Nearly one year after the state ordered Yampa River water users to begin measuring their diversions from the iconic river, local community groups have raised more than $200,000 to help cash-strapped ranchers and others install the devices needed to comply with the law.

How is climate change affecting the West’s snowpack? What are the projections for the future?  Numerous scientific reports and studies in recent years have tried to answer these questions and...

A judge has granted a water conservancy district in northwest Colorado a water right for a new dam-and-reservoir project that top state engineers had opposed.

The Colorado River Water Conservation District staff plans to present its own framework for a water-savings plan at its October board meeting.

In a first-of-its-kind project, scientists will trace snow from where it arrives in the atmosphere, to where it melts into the ground. 

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

Lakes Mead and Powell, the basin’s two largest reservoirs, are approaching critical levels in which hydropower from their dams (Hoover and Glen Canyon, respectively) would be severely curtailed or altogether cease.

This page features photos of Flaming Gorge Reservoir, which impounds the Green River in Wyoming and Utah. The Green River is the most significant tributary of the Colorado River. Flaming...

Municipal water providers saw commercial water use plummet at the beginning of the pandemic but those savings were erased once the hot summer rolled in.

A $1 million science experiment on Colorado hay fields is backed by powerful water groups, farm interests, and environmentalists.