Issues

Water managers and experts from across Colorado are investigating the feasibility of a voluntary, temporary and compensated water-use-reduction program.

What started as a promising water year for Colorado with above-average snowpack ended Sept. 30 with the entire state in some level of drought.

Colorado has a new turf replacement program that will finance residential areas to switch their yards to more water efficient landscaping.

Scientists have a variety of measures of drought, but some are starting to use the term "aridification" to describe the long-term drying of the Southwest.

“We’re entering beaver land!” Zanna Stutz yelled joyfully. Stepping lightly over slick, wobbly mud and splashing through ankle-deep water, she approached a small dam created by nature’s engineers. A Woodhouse toad...

Colorado water officials are considering whether to designate the increasingly stressed Yampa River as over-appropriated.

The Navajo Gallup Water Supply Project, under construction in New Mexico, is testing approaches for improving access to running water.

This photo gallery features images shot during a road trip along the Colorado River and two of its tributaries in Colorado: the Blue River and White River. DateApril...

This photo gallery contains images taken by drone for our story on acid mine drainage in Colorado, which featured the Captain Jack Mill Superfund site near Ward, Colorado. DateJuly 18,...

Colorado's drought may continue into the fall, bringing a third year of below-average snowpack and streamflows and high wildfire danger.