Water

A resolution that may be “wishful thinking” calls attention to water priorities for the Ute Mountain Ute and Southern Ute tribes.

The city is lowering the threshold for red-flag conditions from 700 cfs to 600 cfs.

Salt lakes in the American West are shrinking — from Utah’s Great Salt Lake to smaller lakes scattered across the Great Basin. In her new book “Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History,” writer Caroline Tracey explores why these unusual landscapes matter, and what their decline reveals about humans’ impact on the environment.

Researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno, have received a $9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study an unlikely candidate for future fuels: cactus pear.

Arizona and the six other states that use the Colorado River do not have a new plan to share the shrinking water supply.

Four states, including Colorado, came up with a plan in 2019 to dodge dangerously low reservoir levels at Lake Powell. That plan expired Dec. 31. Listen to "Morning Edition" host Michael Lyle, Jr. discuss this article with Colorado Sun Editor David Krause and then read the entire story at the link below.

A majority of House Republicans voted to uphold President Trump’s veto of the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act.

Trump vetoed a bill that would have provided funding to complete a pipeline to carry clean water to communities in southeastern Colorado.

Large farms in parts of the Colorado River Basin are paying little — and in some cases nothing — for federally supplied water, even as cities and residents are being asked to conserve, according to a new report.

For decades, communities in southeastern Colorado have been waiting to get clean drinking water through the Arkansas Valley Conduit.