New Mexico is expecting more pressure on its Colorado River water as more tribes reach water rights settlements and build out infrastructure.
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Colorado adds new water quality protections for South Platte, Clear Creek in sharp reversal
Environmental advocates cheer overturn of controversial 2020 decision that wrote off the urban waters as too polluted for saving
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Colorado has seen a record number of drownings in 2022. Many of the deaths were linked to alcohol, ignoring life jackets.
Recent accidents put 2022 total at 36 water-related deaths, passing a tragic mark from 2020. State officials urge avoiding alcohol, and remind paddleboarders to use life jackets
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Arizona water officials worry about future access to Colorado River
While Arizona cities reliant on the water have backup supplies to cushion them in the short term, talk of cuts leaves long-term picture more uncertain.
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Stressed Colorado River keeps California desert farms alive
California may be forced to give something up in the coming years as hotter and drier weather causes the river’s main reservoirs to fall to dangerously low levels.
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100 years after the Colorado River Compact, the Southwest is nearing a crisis point
Pressure has intensified on the river as the driest 22-year stretch in the past 1,200 years has gripped the Southwest.
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In Mexico’s dry north, Colorado River adds to uncertainty
A small fraction of the river reaches Northern Mexico, irrigating its fields and providing for millions of residents. That supply is now more at risk than ever.
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WATCH: What the Colorado River Compact got wrong
This year marks 100 years since seven states signed an agreement to divide the waters of the Colorado River, called the Colorado River Compact.
Posted inEnvironment
Do Colorado “factory farms” need tighter regulation?
Environmental groups team with DU law school demanding a new permitting system they say will better protect clean water
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It took 10 years to plan a channel around a Colorado River reservoir. Collaboration went well, but urgency was lacking.
GRANBY — Old-timers around here talk about how they used to need to stop after a springtime drive through Byers Canyon to clean all the bugs out of their radiators. So when longtime angler Bud Isaacs noticed the absence of a stonefly hatch on his favorite stretch of the Colorado River below the 445-acre Windy […]