- “We are facing the growing reality that water supplies … are no longer stable due to climate change.”
- Colorado could be more like Arizona by 2080, new research suggests. The drier and warmer conditions would mean less snow melt making its way from the Rocky Mountains into the Colorado River.
- With so little water flowing into the Yampa River below Stagecoach Reservoir, the fish start to stack up and concentrate in low pools of water.
- Chairman Manuel Heart of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe said as water issues become more challenging, tribes need to be at the table of the state’s water policy nonprofit.
- Douglas County commissioners decided they couldn’t use federal COVID relief money to pump water from the south, but will continue to consider the controversial water project.
- Last year, the federal government ordered emergency water releases from Blue Mesa to help protect Lake Powell. There’s worry that will happen again, so the marinas will stay closed.
- The money would help the Rio Grande and Republican River basins meet state groundwater sustainability deadlines.
- And the bills that didn't get passed.
- Lake Powell is expected to only get 60 percent of the water that usually flows into the reservoir during the season.
- An extra million acre-feet of water will be kept in Lake Powell to prop it up, protect hydropower production and buy time for additional action in the Colorado River basin.
- Alease “Aloe” Lee, the agency’s statewide partnership coordinator, says the director should be fired
- The U.S. Bureau of Land Management approved less than 5 percent of the federal acres that had originally been nominated for drilling in Colorado.
- Artist Chris Erickson's "Melting Gondola" sculpture aims to draw attention to how climate change is affecting the ski industry and mountain communities.
- The report highlights the threat climate change and outdated water management pose to the millions of people who rely on the Colorado River.
- Federal data has forecasted statewide streamflow to be 86 percent of average for the 2022 season.
- Communities in the San Luis Valley worry how pumping water out could impact ranchers and farmers, as well as the wetlands that migratory sandhill cranes visit.
