Alex Hager

Drought conditions in the Rocky Mountains could further lower water levels at Lake Powell.

Springtime is here and baseball is back. This year, that’s good news for sports fans AND lovers of a threatened fish native to the Colorado River. As Alex Hager reports for the Mountain West News Bureau, one minor league team will take the field as the “humpback chubs” every Wednesday this season.

Water experts say cloud seeding deserves more funding and research to measure its impact on the drought-stricken Colorado River basin.

The Colorado River is shrinking, and leaders from the states that use it are on the hook to come up with a new plan for managing its water. They have to submit that plan to the federal government by 2026, when the current rules for sharing water expire. KUNC’s Alex Hager reports… those state leaders DO NOT think former president Donald Trump’s return to the White House will change their strategy.

The river outlet pipes inside Glen Canyon Dam are getting a $9 million repair job, but conservation groups want to see more permanent changes at Lake Powell.

In Glen Canyon, home to Lake Powell, the shrinking reservoir has revealed areas that were once submerged. These scientists are counting the plants that live there, and have found that they're mostly native.

New findings about sublimation explain how snow is lost to evaporation before it can melt. The data can help form better predictions about water supplies from the Colorado River.

States tasked with deciding the Colorado River's future have submitted competing proposals for how to manage the river's water. Environmental groups and tribes are also trying to help shape that conversation.

Water negotiators from states around the Southwest said they are planning to submit separate proposals to the Bureau of Reclamation about managing the Colorado River after 2026.

Water from the Shoshone hydropower plant near Glenwood Springs, Colorado, will be purchased by the Colorado River District. It's part of an expensive effort to keep water flowing to the farms, cities and rivers of Western Colorado, and away from fast-growing cities and towns around Denver.