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Colorado’s soil moisture is better than in recent years. But that’s not saying much

Relationship between dry soil conditions in the fall and spring runoff has gained more attention

DATE: Dec 2, 2022 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Early-season snow off to good start in Colorado’s high country

So far, the biggest in-state beneficiary has been Southwest Colorado with 217% of the median snowpack

DATE: Nov 11, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Farming, water and Wall Street on Colorado’s Western Slope

Agriculture producers in Grand Valley face difficult questions over the future of water in the West

DATE: Sep 14, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Where does the water in Glenwood Canyon’s iconic Hanging Lake come from?

The U.S. Forest Service and a Missouri water-tracing company are trying to find the water source of the popular hiking destination

DATE: Aug 11, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Congress may continue to pay farmers to use less water as Colorado River pleas intensify

The bill is tied to an Upper Basin water plan in response to talk about significant Colorado River cuts.

DATE: Jul 25, 2022 | CATEGORY: Agriculture

Upper Basin states lay out plan to help the Colorado River, but say Lower Basin needs to chip in more

Letter: ‘Efforts to protect critical reservoir elevations must include significant actions focused downstream of Lake Powell’

DATE: Jul 19, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Federal water projections for Lake Powell, other reservoirs are ‘too rosy’

Colorado River researchers find Bureau of Reclamation study was consistently too optimistic

DATE: Feb 24, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Coloradans worried about water, wildfires and cost of living, new poll shows

Telephone and online interview polled 3,440 residents of eight Mountain West states

DATE: Feb 18, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

22 years of drought in Colorado, rest of the Southwest is worst stretch in 1,200 years, study shows

Climate change made the current megadrought worse, study of tree ring data says. CSU researcher who reviewed the work says the conditions aren’t likely to improve

DATE: Feb 15, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado River Basin’s water forecast looked good in January; now everything has changed

Data collected from sensors recorded near- or record-low snowfall during last three weeks of January

DATE: Feb 9, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News