Draft rules designed to implement a landmark bipartisan law to protect thousands of miles of streams and vast wetlands have ...

San Diego’s NBC 7 reports that major rain storms this year will allow the city to forego buying $55 million worth of water ...

Arizona’s 15 News reports that the state is moving forward with major desalination plans that would involve swapping ...

Extreme, back-to-back dry years that are as parched as the Dust Bowl, could leave 99% of some prairie ecosystems wiped out, ...

During the drought-choked summer of 2021, Colorado’s largest reservoir, Blue Mesa, was low, its shoreline exposed and dusty like a dirty white collar. The massive inflows from the Gunnison River, a ...

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 ...

Colorado’s farm water use remains stubbornly high, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, despite millions of dollars spent on experimental water-saving programs and a ...

Real estate developers interested in exporting water they own from the San Luis Valley to fast-growing, water-short Douglas County have contributed thousands of dollars to candidates for the Parker ...

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 ...

A new turf replacement program, set to roll out in Colorado in 2023, will pay to convert some of the grass in urban areas and residential yards into more water-efficient landscaping. This is the first ...

Ghost towns with names like Padroni, Snyder and Hillrose can be found across pockets of Colorado’s farming country. People still live there, and while other rural towns thrive, these have become ...

Negotiations are underway in Colorado to purchase one of the oldest, largest water rights on the Colorado River within state lines, expanding that water’s legal use to include environmental benefits, ...