Colorado River

Colorado's negotiator, Becky Mitchell, and Nevada's, John Entsminger, spoke to a crowd of policy experts and answered questions from the audience.

Chimney Hollow will eventually pull water from the Colorado River near its headwaters in Grand County to serve a dozen fast growing cities on the Front Range from Broomfield to Greeley.

The Colorado River Wildfire Collaborative hired a program manager to raise funds for mitigation work between Glenwood Springs and De Beque. That region is one of the most fire-prone in the state, and has lacked the resources to address the risk.

It’s not clear yet how the money would be distributed among several states in a river basin where political fights and an impasse over how to share water long term have persisted even during historic drought.

Bullfrog Marina is one of four remaining marinas around Lake Powell. The Bullfrog North Launch Ramp is also just one of two launch ramps that remains open to public motorized vessels, according to the National Park Service, but the agency warns to “launch at your own risk.”

The previously-frozen drought mitigation funding came from President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.

A federal hydrologist appeared to be momentarily at a loss for words Thursday as he described how dire the latest forecast has gotten for how much water will flow through the Colorado River Basin this summer.

Several communities and towns along the Front Range and southern part of Colorado are gearing up for another season of rafting and floating along the various rivers in the region.

With post-2026 negotiations deadlocked and legal tensions rising, the Colorado River's emergency actions buy a year at best, leaving the basin's deeper challenges unresolved.

Experts weigh in on what we learned during the region’s worst drought on record, and how those lessons might help us this year