A team of California researchers have developed a new way of estimating the economic impacts of water-saving efforts in the enormous basin. They’re turning it into an online site that everyone can use.
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Fourth graders in Eagle County take on Colorado River water policy
The students tackled a central question plaguing the enormous Colorado River Basin: Should the policies that govern its waters change? They say, yes.
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Thornton files new permit to build Larimer County water pipeline as housing development stalls
City will try again to get its water rights from the Poudre River after a public relations blitz; more than 10,000 potential Thornton homes are on hold as they wait for taps
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Colorado River crisis: How did the nation’s two largest reservoirs nearly go dry?
Historic drought, poor planning, competing political agendas and climate-change denial contributed to dangerously low levels at Lake Mead and Lake Powell, experts say. What’s being done to reverse the damage?
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A small hydroelectric plant with big water rights is the center of a proposal to keep Colorado River water flowing west
Anglers, growers and water districts in the region say preserving the water right would aid them long into the future, but a major state water agency has big questions.
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Grand Lake will get no state help — for now — to restore its once-crystalline water
Pumping water from the Western Slope to the Front Range reduces clarity in Grand Lake, even though its scenic values are protected by federal law
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PHOTOS: What the Climax mine leaves behind
The world’s hunger for molybdenum keeps the Climax mine running 24/7 — even after more than a century of extraction
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Dam on the Arkansas River near Salida finally removed after years of rescues, drownings and environmental impacts
Colorado Parks and Wildlife and Chaffee County commissioners help fund removal of the dam that has threatened river runners, fish habitat for nearly 60 years.
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New Douglas County water commission includes former state official, real estate developer
Douglas County has created a new water planning group to help it grapple with future water insecurity, but some selected appointees are raising questions for local water providers.
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Prohibition on thirsty, decorative grasses in Colorado gains early support among legislators
A draft bill aims to prohibit new installations of grass that sucks up too much water. It’s the latest action in a growing conservation movement in arid Colorado.