Issues

Colorado lawmakers have suspended an attempt to prohibit outside investors from profiting off the state’s water.

This page in our free multimedia library features photos of Abiquiu Lake, which impounds the Rio Chama in northwest New Mexico. Situated between the Sangre...

When researcher Brian Richter set out to take a close look at how big cities in the Western U.S. were adapting to water scarcity,...

This page features drone-captured images of Paonia Reservoir, located in Gunnison County, Colorado. Constructed in 1962, 199-foot Paonia Dam crosses Muddy Creek just upstream from...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is offering $500,000 for a better tool to measure how much water snowflakes contain.

The Colorado River is in crisis — one of the worst in recorded history. For the past several months, the seven states that use Colorado River water have been trying to come up with a plan to keep the river from collapsing. California is the single largest user of Colorado River water, which means that any effort to save the river involves California making some serious cuts. 

This page in our free multimedia library features aerial photos of the snowpack in the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado. The San Juans are...

An 18-member work group charged with exploring ways to strengthen Colorado’s anti-speculation water laws is getting down to business.

Colorado could need 750,000 acre-feet of new water supplies by 2050 for its growing population, but how to store that water isn’t clear.

The state’s fixation on oil and gas development threatens the Colorado River watershed.