“You need to have as many tools in your toolbox as possible,” says Greg Fisher, demand planning and efficiency manager at Denver Water. “This is Colorado. Even if you could take the drought and the ...

Colorado River in Crisis: A Times series on the Southwest’s shrinking water lifeline Colorado River in Crisis is a series of stories, videos and podcasts in which Los Angeles Times journalists ...

Deep below the surface of the ground in one of the driest parts of the country, there is a looming problem: The water is ...

A water crisis is looming in the West as seven states struggle to agree on how to divide water from the mighty Colorado River. California has played hardball with its neighbor states ...

JB Hamby saying if Colorado doesn't agree to make cuts, Denver's water supply could could be disrupted, because of longstanding water rights that give farmers first crack over cities.

Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, reports on new research showing that the Colorado River Basin has lost 27.8 million acre-feet of groundwater since 2003—an amount equal to ...

Rep. Lauren Boebert seeking $5m in federal funds to remove ‘toxic black sludge’ from drinking water in tiny Colorado ...

The largest reservoir in the US is under threat again, with low runoff and rising temperatures raising the risk of supply ...

Three of Colorado’s top water experts hammered home the idea that Colorado’s water situation id precarious, at best, and almost always on the brink of crisis. The day-long Voices of Rural ...

The Colorado River supplies water to roughly ... remarkably complex and ill-suited to short-term adaptive strategies. Today’s water crisis has been building since 2000, when, ironically, the ...

Lake Powell is facing an ongoing water crisis as prolonged drought, reduced snowpack and rising temperatures batter the Colorado River basin. Lake Powell and the Glen Canyon dam. Lake Powell is ...

City officials say recent heavy rain across southern Colorado led to a surge of debris in French Creek, the city's main water source and a backup pipeline is currently under repair. "We have an ...