Category: Water Supply

Colorado water regulators are asking lawmakers to allow them to assume oversight of streams once protected by the Clean Water Act. Credit: Jeff Rice, Sterling Journal-Advocate

Aurora inks $43.7 million in water deals on South Platte River

October 21, 2020 by Jerd Smith

INTERA staff collecting water samples from a groundwater well for contaminant testing and remediation.

Colorado Groundwater Quality and Emerging Contaminants

October 15, 2020 by Shaden Musleh

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

Colorado reservoirs down 25 percent as drought persists

October 14, 2020 by Sarah Kuta

Research technician and Grand County rancher Wendy Thompson collects hay samples as part of a far-reaching experiment to see if ranchers can fallow hay meadows and conserve more water for the Colorado River. Credit: Dave Timko, This American Land. Aug. 12, 2020

These hay fields may know something we don’t: how to save the Colorado River

October 7, 2020 by Jerd Smith

Water conservation payments to Colorado ranchers could top $120M; is it enough?

September 30, 2020 by Jerd Smith

Feds issue red flag warning on lakes Powell and Mead

September 16, 2020 by Jerd Smith

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