- If the reservoir drops below 3,525 feet, it could threaten power generation and other water infrastructure and jeopardize water-sharing agreements between states.
- As water levels in the Colorado and Yampa Rivers fall due to growth and climate change, working to ensure there's enough water to meet the state's needs is taking on new urgency. Meantime, the Denver Basin Loop project may be one solution for part of the Front Range. CPR climate and environment reporter Michael Elizabeth Sakas and KRCC growth reporter Shanna Lewis share their reporting.
- The 'over-appropriated' declaration will change how permits for groundwater wells are approved but won't affect how the water that flows on the surface of the river and its tributaries is managed and used
- To better protect communities, some lawmakers and fire experts say it’s time for Colorado to require homes be built to better survive flames.
- Officials hope to cancel Superior’s boil orders by Friday, Jan. 7, and Louisville's by Sunday, Jan. 9.
- The reductions are necessary to maintain interstate river agreements preserve underground water supplies.
- The rapid reversal of low snow levels in the early winter weeks has also brought high avalanche danger.
- “We have to decide that it’s important to teach kids about this, to arm kids with the information about this phenomenon that will shape their lives.”
- Today, 15 percent of Southern Utes living on the reservation in southwest Colorado don’t have running water in their homes at all.
- In 2007, the states in the Colorado River basin adopted interim river management guidelines to respond to worsening drought conditions without input from Tribes.
- “We could get there in four to six years,” said water and climate scientist Brad Udall about the possibility of a compact call on the Colorado River.
- The new rules would spell out how some rights-holders near the Yampa, White and North Platte River Basins should measure their water use.
- When the East Troublesome fire ignited a year ago, no one expected what would come next. About a week after the initial spark, the winds picked up and combined with historically dry conditions, and the wildfire rapidly blew up to nearly 190,000 acres. The flames closed Rocky Mountain National Park and made a run into
- Moving livestock around improves ecosystem health, but rotational grazing isn’t a new idea.
- The goats clear noxious weeds, help with erosion control along rivers and eat brush that could fuel big wildfires.
- The drought is drying up the Colorado River as well as Lake Powell and Lake Mead, the two largest reservoirs in the U.S.
