Category: Climate and Drought

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. May 14, 2019. As Colorado emerges from drought this year, its reservoirs are struggling to refill. Credit: Jerd Smith

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

SIEP project manager, Jacon VonLembke points out one of the micrometer sensors that alerts them to changes in the hemp plant's diameter related to stressors like dehydration. Credit: Hannah Leigh Myers

Is hemp’s water-saving rep deserved? Colorado researchers launch wave of testing to find out

December 4, 2019 by Hannah Leigh Myers

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