How this spring’s snowpack is stacking up
No joke: April 1 readings were decent across many parts of the West, but some areas are still stuck in a snow drought
Photos and videos: Navajo Lake and San Juan River, April 2021
This page features drone-captured videos and images of Navajo Lake, a reservoir that impounds the San Juan River in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico.
Completed in 1962, Navajo...
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.
Advocacy and science work together to improve water quality in Coal Creek
Two non-profit groups in Crested Butte work to clean up waters still polluted from the Keystone and Standard mines.
Garfield County to lease its Ruedi Reservoir water to help endangered fish in Colorado...
The move is meant to help humpback chub, bonytail, razorback sucker and Colorado pikeminnow in an often-depleted section of the Colorado River.
Courtroom battle could lead to limits on fluoridation of drinking water
A trial underway in San Francisco could spell the beginning of the end of water fluoridation in America, potentially affecting drinking water for hundreds of millions of people.
Colorado reaches settlement on Chatfield Reservoir environmental water plan
Colorado water officials have reached a settlement removing one of the last barriers to a new water program in Chatfield Reservoir.
Amid a withering drought, New Mexico leaders struggle to plan for life with less...
New Mexico faces tough choices as a dire and historic drought continues and the Rio Grande is unable to give everyone what they want or need.
Environmental justice board eyes new coordinating entity, better community outreach tools
Colorado's Environmental Justice Advisory Board is discussing recommendations to help the state strengthen its environmental justice work.
Taking stock of the spring snowpack
Maps and charts visualize conditions at the April 1 milestone