Tag: Colorado River
Guest Post: Say no to the Colorado legislature’s gimmick to gamble...
Do you feel like gambling with our state’s water and rivers? The Colorado legislature does, and it’s a gamble we shouldn’t take.
In these last...
How best to share the disappearing Colorado River Seven Western states...
As early as 2020, hydrologists forecast that the level of Lake Mead, the largest reservoir on the Colorado River, could drop low enough to...
Feds set urgent deadline on Colorado River drought plan Interior Dept....
LAS VEGAS – Reforming western water policy has always been an exercise in political maneuvering, stop-and-start negotiations and bureaucratic delays. Progress comes slowly and...
PARCHED: Climate change and growth pushing CO toward a water crisis...
Editor's note: This story is the latest in The Colorado Independent's ongoing series, PARCHED, which tracks Colorado's water plan and water supplies in the...
After years of drought, Colorado water bosses face uncertainty
On June 1, a spark near the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gage Railroad ignited a flame in the Animas River gorge north of Durango....
Clouds with a Silver Lining: Seeding Storms to Boost the Colorado...
People in seven western states and Mexico rely on the Colorado River for their water supplies. As the climate warms, the mighty river's flows...
Money for water: A pilot project wins over skeptical farmers and...
PINEDALE, WY – When Freddie Botur, 45, whose ranch spans 72,000 acres outside of Pinedale, Wyoming, first heard about a program that was paying...
PARCHED: Farms could help solve Colorado’s water shortage. So why aren’t...
Colorado’s looming water shortage would be easier to quench if farmers and ranchers were willing to part, if only temporarily, with some of their supplies.
But...
Climate change is shrinking the West’s water supply
Picture a snowflake drifting down from a frigid February sky in western Colorado and settling high in the Rocky Mountains. By mid-April, the alpine...
BLM’s planned lease sale of 100,000 Colorado acres for drilling prompts...
The Bureau of Land Management’s proposal to auction approximately 100,000 acres of federal public lands in northern Colorado for oil and gas drilling has...