Water in the West

Colorado cities competed to see which has the best-tasting tap water. KUNC's Alex Hager was invited to judge, but found that it's hard to pick up on "grassy, earthy and rubbery" flavors in a famously bland beverage.

The Bureau of Reclamation filed a Notice of Intent to propose changes to the amount of water released from Lake Powell and Lake Mead.

The Department of the Interior designated $4 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act for drought mitigation in the Colorado River basin.

A new study shows that a large number of Native American households in the Mountain West lack indoor plumbing.

KDNK's news team brings you local and regional news from the Mountain West.

Colorado Mountain College sustainability studies students, Sierra and Camden, discuss water issues in their watershed: the Yampa River Valley. They learn about problems and solutions to this sustainability issue by talking with Madison Muxworthy with the Yampa Valley Sustainability Council, and Ben Beall of Friends of the Yampa.

Adele Craft talks with Colorado Mountain College (CMC) sustainability students, James Ring and Christina Matzl, about water issues in the west.

The Front Range cities of Aurora and Colorado Springs want to build a second reservoir in the scenic Homestake Valley, southwest of Red Cliff. In September, Wilderness Workshop and the Eagle River Watershed Council hiked into the valley to examine the potential impacts of a second dam. KDNK’s Morgan Neely has this report.

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…

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.