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Water from the Shoshone hydropower plant near Glenwood Springs, Colorado, will be purchased by the Colorado River District. It's part of an expensive effort to keep water flowing to the farms, cities and rivers of Western Colorado, and away from fast-growing cities and towns around Denver.
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Washington County, Utah — home to the city of St. George — has recently been one of the fastest growing areas in the nation. Local leaders hope a new plan will stretch the county’s water supplies enough to make it through the next two decades.
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Many farmers across the Mountain West grow alfalfa, which is dried into hay and fed to beef and dairy cattle. But it requires a lot more water than most crops. Now, researchers are working on new technologies to reduce the amount farmers use. Still, some say allowing them to grow such a thirsty crop in the arid West is the problem.
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Nebraska has purchased 90 acres in Colorado as part of a project to send South Platte water across the border.
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The limited snowfall could have big implications for the Colorado River, which gets most of its water from snow in the Rocky Mountains.
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When it comes to the Colorado River, reining in demand is top of mind for water managers. KUNC’s Alex Hager just traveled to Las Vegas to hear from the people shaping the river’s future. He tells us more today on In The NoCo.
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Valmont Station burned coal to produce electricity for Boulder from the mid 1920s until 2017. Five years later, the environmental impacts of coal ash linger, with few conservation watchdogs in sight. Boulder Reporting Lab founder and publisher Stacy Feldman joined us to talk about it.
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The Imperial Irrigation District in California announced it will conserve 100,000 acre-feet of water in 2024, less than its initial water conservation goals.
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The state will have to decide how to protect the wetlands that now fall outside the purview of the Clean Water Act, which water policy experts are calling “gap waters.”
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New data shows many cities in the Mountain West and beyond are experiencing warmer winters because of climate change. Experts say that trend raises concerns.