A wetter winter and conservation measures have helped improve the Colorado River’s health a bit this summer, but experts warn a drier future is ahead
Upper Colorado River Basin
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40 million people share the shrinking Colorado River. Here’s how that water gets divvied up.
Everything you wanted to know about the Colorado River but were afraid to ask.
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Lorelei Cloud is the first-ever tribal member on Colorado’s top water board. Here’s how she plans to tackle her new role.
Cloud, a Southern Ute tribal member, breaks down her ideas on water issues, basin tensions and possible collaborations.
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Colorado River Basin reservoirs still face grim outlook despite healthy snowpack
Winter snow accumulation offers water officials a breather as they face the basin’s long-term drought.
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A $125 million program to cut Colorado River water use shuffles forward with fractured support
The program is a key strategy in the Upper Basin’s plan to conserve water and help replenish reservoirs and rivers in the Colorado River Basin
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Colorado’s soil moisture is better than in recent years. But that’s not saying much.
The relationship between dry soil conditions in the fall and spring runoff has gained more attention in recent years across the Colorado River Basin
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Inflation/climate bill includes $4 billion for buying water to save the Colorado River Basin
Bennet, other Western senators applaud funds meant to rent, buy or save water to fill the 2 million to 4 million acre-foot gap amid historic drought.
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Feds slash state water draws from Colorado River as drought intensifies
The federal government declared a water shortage on the Colorado River for the first time since a compact between seven river basin was inked a century ago, with major 2022 water delivery cutbacks for Arizona and a lesser amount for Nevada and the nation of Mexico. But water resource experts warned Coloradans not to be […]
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Colorado’s major snowstorm only made a dent in the drought. These maps and graphs explain what’s going on.
Despite what multiple feet of snow on the ground might suggest to many Coloradans, the state’s long-term drought remains persistent. And water forecasters are worried that even if the state receives decent spring moisture, Colorado and the greater American Southwest will need lots more to emerge from this drought. The record-breaking storms that buried Front […]
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Estimates of future Upper Colorado River Basin water use confound planning, report shows
By Heather Sackett, Aspen Journalism Some water experts fear that a long-held aspiration to develop more water in the Upper Colorado River Basin is creating another chance to let politics and not science lead the way on river management. “Alternative Management Paradigms for the Future of the Colorado and Green Rivers,” a white paper released […]