colorado river
Colorado leaders vow to fight for water rights amid 2026 drought, Colorado River woes
As litigation looms and drought takes its toll, state officials defiant over Colorado River’s future Streamflows on Colorado’s Western Slope are at near-record or record lows ByChase Woodruff-August 21, 2026 4:00 am Water levels in the Wolford Mountain Reservoir in Grand County, which dams a tributary of the Colorado River, have dropped by more than 30 […]
Lake Powell hits record low, threatening key water and electricity supply for millions
The water level at Lake Powell, the United States’ second-largest reservoir, has fallen to a record low, heightening concerns about the ongoing crisis in the Colorado River system. The alarming milestone at Lake Powell, reached Saturday, comes about a week after the river’s other major reservoir, Lake Mead, also hit a historic low. Plummeting water […]
Officials will not release cool water from a Colorado River reservoir to protect threatened fish
Federal officials said Thursday they will not release cool water this year from one of the Colorado River’s major reservoirs, which would have protected a threatened native fish downstream but put more strain on already struggling hydropower production. In an email obtained by The Associated Press, the Bureau of Reclamation told various groups that water […]
Colorado River’s dire state demands action from urban water users, experts say — few are
DENVER | Dissonance exists between life-close-to-normal policies regarding urban water use and the growing crisis on the river Casually surveying the urban landscapes in much of Colorado’s Front Range, you’d never know that the Colorado River — the source for roughly half the water of the cities — has deteriorated to its most pitiful shape […]