Colorado Water Plan

Colorado’s water shortages are not relegated to the distant future. Water supplies cannot meet current demands in many communities, and are only likely to worsen as climate change heats up and dries out the state’s cities and farms.

Last November, Coloradans voted to legalize sports betting by passing Proposition DD.Under the new law, sports betting will begin in May this year, and…

Updated 11/6/19 at 3:13 p.m.Proposition DD has passed with 50.7% of the vote, according to unofficial vote totals from the Colorado Secretary of State's…

Music is blaring and grills are firing up at a parking lot awash in navy blue and orange outside Empower Field at Mile High Stadium in Denver.Todd…

When Nancy and Steven Innis built their new home in Greeley, they equipped it with the latest in water conservation tech.The automatic kitchen faucet…

An old water cliché tells us that “water flows uphill toward money.” It’s an adage born out of people’s frustrations about who benefits when water moves…

Few things are more valuable to a farmer in the arid West than irrigation water. Without it, the land turns back into its natural state: dry, dusty…

Text of Gov. John Hickenlooper's 2016 State of the State address, as prepared and delivered, Jan. 14, 2016.Text courtesy of the Office of the Governor,…

Colorado's statewide water plan has been criticized for failing to make tough decisions about the state's biggest water issues: how new growth uses water,…

The second draft of the Colorado Water Plan is out. It includes plans for all nine of Colorado's water basins and will serve as a roadmap for future water…