Category: Conservation and Efficiency

Construction workers build a single family home in Castle Rock. The needs new surface water supplies to reduce its reliance on non-renewable groundwater. Credit: Jerd Smith

Fast-growing Douglas County communities need more water. Is a controversial San Luis Valley export plan the answer?

March 30, 2022 by Jerd Smith

State officials gear up for “difficult conversations” on the Colorado River

February 2, 2022 by Jerd Smith

Governor Polis and Water Education Colorado Launch Water ’22 Initiative to Implore Coloradans to Conserve and Protect Water Amidst Historic Drought, Fires

January 27, 2022 by Caitlin Coleman

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

New era? Western cities using wetland parks, stormwater capture and mobile wastewater collection

November 10, 2021 by Jerd Smith

Colorado lawmakers propose millions in funding to slash groundwater use; curb water profiteering

November 3, 2021 by Larry Morandi

Briefly: New tool launched by NASA to understand Western crop water use

October 26, 2021 by Water Education Colorado

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