Category: Water Supply

Export Plan Threatens Colorado’s San Luis Valley

January 22, 2020 by Caitlin Coleman

A center pivot irrigates a field in the San Luis Valley. Tensions have been high in the valley since Front Range developers proposed moving water out of the valley to metro Denver. Fresh Water News, along with PBS documentary series This American Land, traveled to the valley as part of a new partnership. Credit: Jerd Smith

Pressure to export San Luis Valley farm water builds. Come witness the story firsthand with Fresh Water News and PBS’ This American Land.

by Jerd Smith

Learn about Methods for Stream Management Planning at the New Resource Library

January 16, 2020 by Caitlin Coleman

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

Western Water Plans: Uncertain about uncertainty?

by Bianca Valdez

Lake Powell, created with the 1963 completion of Glen Canyon Dam, is the upper basin's largest reservoir on the Colorado River. But 2000-2019 has provided the least amount of inflow into the reservoir, making it the lowest 20-year period since the dam was built, as evidenced by the "bathtub ring" and dry land edging the reservoir, which was underwater in the past. As of October 1, 2019, Powell was 55 percent full. Credit: EcoFlight

As 2020 kicks in, historic Colorado River Drought Plan will get its first test

January 8, 2020 by Laura Paskus

Letter: Yampa River water issues unfairly portrayed in Fresh Water News

January 2, 2020 by Mark Camblin Erin Light

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