Colorado Rivers

Use it or lose it.That saying is at the heart of how access to water is managed in the western U.S. Laws that govern water in more arid states, like…

The number of deaths and accidents on Colorado’s rivers is right around normal for a high flow year, according to data from the conservation group…

Groundwater pumping is causing rivers and small streams throughout the country to decline, according to a new study from researchers at the Colorado…

Early season snowfall in some parts of the Colorado River Basin have raised hopes of a drought recovery. But that optimism is likely premature.In…

The effects of climate change are already being felt at the headwaters of the West’s most important river system, according to a study released earlier…

A menace lurks beneath the snow high up in the southern Rocky Mountains.At first glance it seems innocuous, another piece of a dynamic alpine ecosystem,…

In 2014, the Colorado River did something it hadn’t done in decades. For a few short weeks that spring, the overdrawn, overallocated river reached the…

The first official forecast for the amount of water expected in the Colorado River and its Rocky Mountain tributaries this spring is in, and the outlook…

After a very dry fall, Colorado’s snowpack has bounced back. Statewide, the snowpack is at almost 160 percent of normal, with the state’s historically…

Some native fish in the Colorado River and its tributaries are struggling to stay afloat. Invasive species, dams and water diversions all complicate the…