A misguided Colorado River task force?
State legislators created a Colorado River task force. John McClow, a prominent water official, argues that this represents a step backward.
Does Colorado need water-use standards given the impacts of aridification?
Agriculture uses the vast majority of water in Colorado, but its cities depend upon Colorado River diversions. That just might be a problem. Some solutions?
Polis seeks $1.9 million to revamp Colorado River crisis team
Colorado governor to ask lawmakers for $1.9 million to create new policy and technology team to aid negotiators as river crisis deepens
Cheerful delusions about the Colorado River
We really would rather be getting news about another Super Bowl triumph. But the Colorado River is rapidly nearing total disfunction. It is the story.
What Boebert and Frisch did not say
The Congressional candidates were entertaining and depressing as they thrust and parried in their Club 20 debate. Where were the stories, the words that inspire, the bold visions for the future?
Hedging our water bets
Las Vegas in 2007 bet on declining reservoir levels in the Colorado River. The bet is now paying off. Municipal water providers in Colorado have started tightening the spigot for landscaping. That move is also wise — but overdue?
Glen Canyon’s sagging electricity output
Generation of electricity at Glen Canyon Dam sags as Colorado and other Colorado River Basin states struggle to slow the decline of Lake Powell.
Spring is coming too soon
Another nice spring day—in mid-winter. But that early spring of recent years has never boded well for summer time heat and all that comes with it.
No. 5: Shrinking river and reservoirs
Are the political institutional agreements and water infrastructure of the 20th century in the Colorado River Basin flexible enough for a hotter, dryer climate?
Reimagining the risk of wildfire in Colorado
Colorado will be seriously rethinking the risk of wildfire in locations where upwards of 80% of the state’s residents live as temperatures rise.
Reckoning time on the Colorado River (and its tributaries)
Climate change was talked about before, but not with the same alarm as this year at an annual water meeting, a reflection of what is happening on the ground
It’s not drought, but what do we call it?
Drought, as we understand the word, doesn’t explain the diminished Colorado River flows. But what word better describes this steady disappointment in snowpack?
