Category: Climate and Drought

Snow in the Garden of the Gods. Credit: Creative Commons

Colorado snowpack, reservoir levels strong, despite dry January

January 29, 2020 by Jerd Smith

A center pivot irrigates a field in the San Luis Valley. Tensions have been high in the valley since Front Range developers proposed moving water out of the valley to metro Denver. Fresh Water News, along with PBS documentary series This American Land, traveled to the valley as part of a new partnership. Credit: Jerd Smith

Pressure to export San Luis Valley farm water builds. Come witness the story firsthand with Fresh Water News and PBS’ This American Land.

January 22, 2020 by Jerd Smith

Standley Lake in Westminster. The ongoing drought, which shows no signs of easing this fall, has left Colorado's reservoirs at just 84 percent of average capacity, down from 112 percent of average last year at this time. Credit: Jerd Smith, Fresh Water News

Western Water Plans: Uncertain about uncertainty?

January 16, 2020 by Bianca Valdez

Lake Powell, created with the 1963 completion of Glen Canyon Dam, is the upper basin's largest reservoir on the Colorado River. But 2000-2019 has provided the least amount of inflow into the reservoir, making it the lowest 20-year period since the dam was built, as evidenced by the "bathtub ring" and dry land edging the reservoir, which was underwater in the past. As of October 1, 2019, Powell was 55 percent full. Credit: EcoFlight

As 2020 kicks in, historic Colorado River Drought Plan will get its first test

January 8, 2020 by Laura Paskus

The Yampa River, Aug. 19, 2019. Credit: CU News Corps.

Anger and disappointment as Yampa River ranchers ordered to measure water

December 18, 2019 by Jerd Smith

The Yampa Basin has tasted curtailment, but more administration could be coming

December 16, 2019

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