Awash in snowmelt on the Colorado
Once-in-a-century runoff predicted for river. “Don’t squander it,” water officials warn.
A three-wire winter on the Yampa
Some say the deep snows in northwestern Colorado are unlike anything they have ever seen. What will it do for Powell and Colorado River?
The Colorado River Compact hasn’t aged well
George Sibley says it is time for the seven states to throw out the the now century-old compact and start over.
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.
A disturbing milestone for Lake Powell
Another 35 feet lower elevation of Lake Powell and Glen Canyon Daam will cease being able to generation electricity, with many implications.
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?
The perplexity of a useless boat ramp at Lake Powell
Declining levels of Lake Powell have left a boat ramp far above the water levels. It’s one concrete example of the perplexing challenge of a warming, aridifying climate in the Colorado River Basin.
Extreme weather? Yes, and the events were interrelated
Heat waves, bad air, flash floods, debris flows and drought—these were separate but interrelated parts of climate change in Colorado and beyond during 2021.
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?
