Category: Environment

Standley Lake in Westminster. The ongoing drought, which shows no signs of easing this fall, has left Colorado's reservoirs at just 84 percent of average capacity, down from 112 percent of average last year at this time. Credit: Jerd Smith, Fresh Water News

Colorado reservoirs down 25 percent as drought persists

October 14, 2020 by Sarah Kuta

Research technician and Grand County rancher Wendy Thompson collects hay samples as part of a far-reaching experiment to see if ranchers can fallow hay meadows and conserve more water for the Colorado River. Credit: Dave Timko, This American Land. Aug. 12, 2020

These hay fields may know something we don’t: how to save the Colorado River

October 7, 2020 by Jerd Smith

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Sept. 10, 2019. Credit: Jerd Smith

Colorado enacts arsenal of laws to stop “forever chemicals”

September 23, 2020 by Caitlin Coleman

Feds issue red flag warning on lakes Powell and Mead

September 16, 2020 by Jerd Smith

Nestlé seeks more time in Chaffee County as locals ask to be “unbottled”

September 9, 2020 by Jerd Smith

Streets are empty in Central City, with casinos shuttered and hundreds of workers layed-off. The pandemic is bad news for the state's new sports-betting tax , which was to have helped fund the Colorado Water Plan. April 21, 2020. Credit: Jerd Smith

Sports betting revenue finally flowing; new ad campaign reminds voters it’s all about water

September 2, 2020 by Sarah Kuta

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