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Lake Powell and Lake Mead are critical reservoirs on the Colorado River.. The dams that create these lakes supply electricity for homes from California to…
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Host Bill Kight will talk with Morgan Hill. Morgan is president of the Middle Colorado Watershed Council and she will tell us what's happening along the…
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Recent reports have shown how debris flows in Glenwood Canyon have damaged I70 and changed local driving habits. But, what about the river? For this…
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Native, invasive, and endangered fish have been found dead between De Beque and Grand Junction. More from KDNK’s Morgan Neely.
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Seven years ago, a pulse of water on the Colorado River at the U.S.-Mexico border temporarily reconnected it to the Pacific Ocean. Scientists used the so-called “pulse flow” to study what plant and animal life returned to the desiccated delta along with water.
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Emergency water releases from reservoirs upstream of Lake Powell are underway to preserve the nation’s second-largest reservoir’s ability to generate hydroelectric power.
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Another dry year has left the waterway that supplies 40 million people in the Southwest parched. A prolonged 21-year warming and drying trend is pushing the nation’s two largest reservoirs to record lows. For the first time this summer, the federal government will declare a shortage.
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The Colorado River's two main reservoirs are at historic lows. Andy Mueller, manager of the Colorado River Water Conservation District, spoke with KDNK's…
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The Colorado River’s biggest reservoirs are likely to drop to historically low levels later this year, prompting mandatory conservation by some of the river’s heaviest users.
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The Fort Yuma-Quechan Indian Tribe is situated at a nexus in the Colorado River Basin.