Northern Water will pay $30 million over the next 30 years to solve long-standing clarity and water quality problems at one of Colorado’s most treasured natural wonders, Grand Lake. Under the terms of ...

Las Vegas’ Fox5 news reports that Colorado River Basin states are bracing for a federal water management plan that is expected to order large-scale cuts in water use to protect the failing river and ...

Source New Mexico rports that state regulators want to limit containants that are allowed in wastewater that is produced in oil fields ahead of rule making hearings next year. Read more on this story ...

Aspen Journalism reports that Pitkin County Commissioners have voted to buy more water from the Twin Lakes Reservoir and Canal Co. The county’s Healthy Rivers board objected to the purchase, saying ...

Aspen Journalism reports that lawmakers sharply questioned the effectiveness of state negotiators on the Colorado River stalemate, saying the ongoing stalemate and failure to meet crucial deadlines ...

The Guardian reports that Wyoming has moved to tighten wastewater treatment rules after a data center owned by Meta improperly discharged contaminated fluids into a Cheyenne wastewater system.

The Arkansas River Basin covers a huge territory, more than 28,000 square miles, encompassing more than a fifth of Colorado’s total land area. The Arkansas River flows from its headwaters near ...

Henry, Colo.: As the sun sets at the Colorado Farm Brewery, a light breeze plays over a deep green rye field that borders the patio. As they do most Thursday nights, nearly two dozen people have ...

OLNEY SPRINGS — From satellite view, the land north of the Arkansas River is a seemingly random checkerboard of vital green and desperate brown, quickly fading from a few thriving farm acres to the ...

As two major new water storage projects designed to capture the flows of the drought-strapped Colorado River are rising on Colorado’s urban Front Range, observers say they represent the end of an era ...

In April 2024, the City of Aurora dropped $76.8 million on real estate in Otero County that included about 7,500 acre-feet of water rights per year, about $10,240 per acre-foot. In northeastern ...

Denver, Aurora, Colorado Springs and Northern Water voiced opposition Wednesday to the Western Slope’s proposal to spend $99 million to buy historic water rights on the Colorado River. The Colorado ...