A new study pinpoints the main cause of harmful algal blooms in Blue Mesa Reservoir, and includes a recommendation for a ...

Snowpack hasn’t been this low since December 1999 As of Dec. 29, snowpack in the Roaring Fork basin is at 3.4 inches of snow water equivalent (SWE) or 53% of normal. Last year, snowpack held 6.7 ...

In 2025, the Water Desk brought readers authoritative reporting on water quality issues in the Roaring Fork Valley, invasive ...

Lake Powell at Wahweap Marina as seen in December 2021. Dwindling streamflows and falling reservoir levels have made it more likely that what some experts call a Colorado River Compact “tripwire” will ...

The intake structure for the Snowmass Water and Sanitation District sits about 20 feet downstream of the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness Area boundary along East Snowmass Creek. The proximity to the ...

As an Aspen Journalism donor, thank you for making this reporting possible! DURANGO — Over two days of hearings, Colorado water managers laid out their arguments related to one of the most powerful ...

As an Aspen Journalism donor, thank you for making this reporting possible! The findings of recent water-conservation studies on the Western Slope could have implications for lawmakers and water ...

As an Aspen Journalism donor, thank you for making this reporting possible! PINEDALE, WYO. – When Freddie Botur, 45, whose ranch spans 72,000 acres outside of Pinedale, Wyo., first heard about a ...

As an Aspen Journalism donor, thank you for making this reporting possible! A Front Range water provider is entering its eighth year of trying to keep water rights alive for three small reservoirs in ...

As an Aspen Journalism donor, thank you for making this reporting possible! Colorado’s mountains are pockmarked with orange tailings piles, adits, tunnels and rusted tramways, the remnants of a ...

From left, J.B. Hamby, chair of the Colorado River Board of California, Tom Buschatzke, Arizona Department of Water Resources; Becky Mitchell, Colorado representative to the Upper Colorado River ...

Thank you for your support of Aspen Journalism! Your support made this work possible. Thank you. West Slope water managers say they are being cut out of the process to review and approve applications ...