Water in the West

Local News

Tuesday April 8, 2025

Marilyn Gleason

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.

Local News

Wednesday May 1, 2024

Amy Hadden Marsh

KDNK's Amy Hadden Marsh brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley and beyond.

Local News

Wednesday April 24, 2024

Amy Hadden Marsh

news host Amy Hadden Marsh brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley and beyond.

People unload a boat on the shores of Lake Powell on April 10, 2023. The nation's largest reservoirs saw a boost from winter snow, but Colorado River policymakers are still under pressure to come up with long term changes to water demand in the Southwest.

Mountain West News Bureau

Feds ease Colorado River cutbacks after positive forecast, but more work remains

Alex Hager

The latest study from the Bureau of Reclamation shows how a wet winter in 2023 helped boost Lake Powell and Colorado River water supplies. But experts say more cuts to demand for the water supply are needed.

A student at Vista Peak Exploratory in Aurora, Colorado responds to a letter from his pen pal in Basalt. A new project is connecting two classrooms to help students learn about how water is shared across the mountains.

Water in the West

Want to bridge the West’s water divides? Start with fifth graders

Alex Hager

Two classrooms in Colorado are learning about water by connecting pen pals between Basalt and Aurora.

Megan Dean, director of education at Roaring Fork Conservancy, teaches students at Basalt Middle School how water flows from Colorado's mountains to big cities on the eastern side of the continental divide.

Local News

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Morgan Troy Neely

KDNK's News Director Morgan Neely has Wednesday's updates, including a preview of tonight's Roaring Fork Schools Board of Education meeting. And, Rifle Police recapture an escaped convict who's decked out in white power and Nazi tattoos.

Democratic Primary candidate Elizabeth Velasco of Glenwood Springs

Local News

Thursday, April 6, 2023

Hattison Rensberry

KDNK’s reporter Hattison Rensberry brings you local and regional news from the Mountain West

Eric Balken, executive director of Glen Canyon Institute, walks along a sandbar once submerged by Lake Powell. As the reservoir drops to record lows, it draws out of areas that were underwater for decades.

Water in the West

Lake Powell drops to a new record low as feds scramble to prop it up

Alex Hager

Lake Powell is shrinking as climate change and steady demand cause trouble for states that rely on the Colorado River. The Bureau of Reclamation is scrambling to keep hydropower generators running in Glen Canyon Dam.

Skiers cruise down the slopes at Snowmass ski area in Colorado. While this winter has already delivered snow totals above 130% of average, climate scientists say it will take more than one wet winter to pull the Southwest out of a 23-year drought.

Water in the West

This winter’s rain and snow won’t be enough to pull the West out of drought

Alex Hager

Heavy rain and snow could provide a boost to the Colorado River, where the nation's largest reservoirs are shrinking due to 23 years of drought and steady demand. But climate scientists warn that it will take more than one wet winter to end the drought.

A pack of wolves in Yellowstone National Park are spotted from a wildlife tracking plane

Local News

Thursday, December 22, 2022

Hattison Rensberry

KDNK's Hattison Rensberry has the news, including wolf reintroduction planned for the Roaring Fork Valley, meth in the air in the Boulder Library, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife listing the Whitebark Pine as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Plus, a look at Paonia's water moratorium four years in. And ... will it be a white Christmas in the Mountain West?