Colorado River

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.

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…

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.

The Fort Yuma-Quechan Indian Tribe is situated at a nexus in the Colorado River Basin.