- More than 40 million people rely on the Colorado River in the West, and every drop of it is used. But with climate change, there’s now less water to go around.
- Colorado will have to release water from the Blue Mesa Reservoir because of a 2019 multi-state drought contingency plan.
- Creeks and other sources of water are drying up, threatening the Western Slope's ranches.
- The North American monsoon has returned to Colorado, and the rain has brought some much-needed relief to some of the driest parts of the state — after multiple back-to-back years of almost no summer rain.
- Ongoing extreme drought conditions on the Western Slope have dried the river up. And those low levels mean the water is unusually warm.
- A four-month wildfire forecasts that the risk will return to normal come September.
- Colorado has a water obligation to several states, but a 20-year mega-drought has led to shrinking water supply in the Colorado River.
- Water is a hot commodity in the West, especially for developers. So what happens if a city doesn’t have ENOUGH water… for thousands of new homes? That’s the situation for the city of Fountain — which is talking openly about the struggles of keeping up growth, in a dry state.
- Colorado Springs' housing boom is expanding into nearby cities, like Fountain. But new homes require water — and there are currently fewer than 9,000 taps to Fountain’s water supply.
- When it comes to drought, it's a tale of two Colorados.
- On Wednesday, the EPA moved to include Weld County in a map of Colorado’s nine counties that are in serious violation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s air quality standards for ozone.
- The burn areas around Glenwood Canyon, Estes Park and Grand Lake from 2020 wildfires are now highly susceptible to flash flooding.
- Climate change is disrupting a delicate system, with less snowpack accumulation overall due to warmer temperatures. What does collect melts sooner and faster, which means less snow on the ground and a greater chance for wildfires.
- Other parts of the state haven’t been so lucky.
- “Our ultimate goal is to create a renewable food economy.”
- Nearly a third of Colorado is under "extreme" or "exceptional" drought conditions as farmers prepare to plant their crops.
