Utah’s water efficiency push may help farms more than the Colorado River
Using water more efficiently in agriculture has many benefits. But bolstering the Colorado River may not be one of them.
Despite Trump’s anti-public lands stance, Colorado advocates still hope to protect Dolores River canyonlands
Members of the “Protect the Dolores” coalition had hoped former President Joe Biden would designate the rugged canyonlands ...
Snowpack in the Rockies is lagging well below average. Colorado River forecasters still see hope on the horizon.
The Colorado River relies heavily on snowpack in the Upper Basin states — Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — that melts ...
Colorado snowpack, after a dry January, is near normal in north — and dismal in some places
A dry January across Colorado and the rest of the Rocky Mountain West has created a dichotomy of water haves and have-nots.
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The Colorado River is salty. But where does salinity come from, and what’s being done about it?
Of all the challenges facing the Colorado River, there’s at least one that all stakeholders are working on collaboratively, ...
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Colorado biologists caught 3 rare Colorado pikeminnows. What does that mean for the future of this critically endangered fish?
Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists were conducting a routine fish survey on the Colorado River when they made an ...
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Utah's big water efficiency push may help farms more than the Colorado River
Making sprinklers more water-efficient may help farms produce more crops but that doesn't mean it would save more water for the Colorado River.
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Feds ask Colorado River official to resign, leaving another leadership gap during “existential time” for the river
Federal officials asked the Upper Colorado River Commission's federal chair to resign as the Trump administrations replaces key leaders.
Walters: Colorado River poses another California water conflict that Trump will affect
New administration could erase any progress in water dispute between California and other Western states over the river.
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Forecasters predict low flows into Colorado River this winter, spring
The result is that the federal Colorado Basin River Forecast Center is now predicting that April through July flows into Powell will be only 76% of normal. That's down from 81% at the beginning of ...