Tag: demand management

Deadline on new Colorado River water cuts looms

January 25, 2023 by Jerd Smith and Caitlin Coleman

Come along as PBS’ This American Land, Fresh Water News track an historic research effort on high-altitude hay meadows in the Upper Colorado River

December 16, 2020 by Jerd Smith

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

Colorado State Capitol. Credit: Jerd Smith

As budget crisis envelops Colorado government, funding for water programs shrinks

June 24, 2020 by Larry Morandi

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

December 16, 2019

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

Avoiding Lake Powell’s Day Zero

November 20, 2019 by Lindsay Fendt