Colorado River

Water agencies in Southern California have agreed to cut back 400,000 acre-feet each year for four years. The deal between agencies supplying cities and farms comes amid federal pressure to reduce use of the shrinking river.

KDNK's Hattison Rensberry caught up with Bennet in downtown Glenwood Springs to ask him how Climate Bill spending could impact the Western Slope.

States in the Colorado River Basin have failed to meet a federal deadline to conserve an unprecedented amount of water. The lack of consensus on how to wean off the river’s dwindling supply puts the water source for 40 million in the Southwest in jeopardy.

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…

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…

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…

Native, invasive, and endangered fish have been found dead between De Beque and Grand Junction. More from KDNK’s Morgan Neely.

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.

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.

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.