Category: Water Use

Colorado securities regulator sues water company, alleging $19M scheme to defraud investors

January 26, 2022 by Jerd Smith

In Vegas, experts eye declining Colorado River flows, electricity woes and federal budget impacts

December 15, 2021 by Allen Best

Too close for comfort—Lessons learned from evacuating the Cameron Peak Fire

December 8, 2021 by Steve Snyder

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Sept. 10, 2019. Credit: Jerd Smith

Colorado launches PFAS takeback, emergency grant programs

November 24, 2021 by Jerd Smith

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