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Central Arizona has been booming -- more people, more houses, more need for water. There's also a long-term drought, and less water to buy from the…
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For five years, Zay Lopez tended vegetables, hayfields and cornfields, chickens, and a small flock of sheep here on the western edge of Colorado's Grand…
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Coal-fired power plants are closing, or being given firm deadlines for closure, across the country. In the Western states that make up the overallocated…
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A new federal program hopes to fill in knowledge gaps on how water moves through the headwaters of arguably the West’s most important drinking and…
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Much of the Santa Cruz River is a dry, desert wash, only flowing after heavy monsoon rains. As Tucson Water hydrologist Dick Thompson and I walk along the…
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Snow swamped mountains across the U.S. West last winter, leaving enough to thrill skiers into the summer, swelling rivers and streams when it melted, and…
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A plan to address a shrinking supply of water on a river that serves 40 million people in the U.S. West is headed to President Donald Trump.The U.S. House…
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Recent figures show snowpack across Colorado is up by almost half after late-winter, early-spring storms.The Denver Post reports that while the snowfall…
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Water leaders from the seven states that make up the Colorado River basin are one step closer to finalizing a drought contingency plan. Representatives…
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High snowpack in the southern Rocky Mountains this winter will likely stave off a shortage declaration in the Colorado River watershed in 2020, relieving…