Water

The town’s 2026 Water Master Plan, adopted last week by Trustees at the Estes Park Town Board meeting, concludes that maintaining that level of service over the next two decades will require more than $100 million in improvements.

Emergency drought-induced draw to save downstream Lake Powell wreaks havoc on Wyoming-Utah’s lucrative Flaming Gorge.

After a wildfire, rivers and streams can take years to recover. Native plants and wildlife are often crowded out by invasive species in the aftermath. But in Nevada’s Virgin River watershed, a collaboration between federal agencies and conservation groups is pointing to early signs of recovery.

Selling water in a dry year may make better financial sense for Colorado farms and ranches than growing crops and feed. Listen to "Morning Edition" host Michael Lyle, Jr. discuss this article with Fresh Water News Editor and Colorado Sun reporter Jerd Smith. Then, you can read the article at the link below.

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

At 8 a.m. Tuesday, there was only silence and the occasional crunch of rocks as a dozen people in orange vests waited in a moonlike landscape beneath a 350-foot-tall dam near Loveland.

Paddling groups want to float. Others want to wade. Landowners want the status quo. And lawmakers seemingly don’t want to get wet in a water fight.

Disputes over water are becoming more common across the Mountain West as populations grow and supplies tighten. Now, a coalition of counties, ranchers and water advocates in Utah and Nevada is appealing federal approval of a groundwater pipeline project in southern Utah.

A resolution that may be “wishful thinking” calls attention to water priorities for the Ute Mountain Ute and Southern Ute tribes.

The city is lowering the threshold for red-flag conditions from 700 cfs to 600 cfs.