Deep below the surface of the ground in one of the driest parts of the country, there is a looming problem: The water is ...

“You need to have as many tools in your toolbox as possible,” says Greg Fisher, demand planning and efficiency manager at Denver Water. “This is Colorado. Even if you could take the drought and the ...

It has offered its own plan to conserve water. The Colorado River is in crisis. The problem has been building for decades but has come to a head in recent years because the major reservoirs on the ...

The Denver Post reports that two large-scale data centers in the metro Denver area are raising questions about the impact of ...

Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, reports on new research showing that the Colorado River Basin has lost 27.8 million acre-feet of groundwater since 2003—an amount equal to ...

Could it work? State and federal officials must work with Native American tribes to solve the Colorado River’s water crisis. But governments have a poor track record of working with the tribes ...

A water crisis is looming in the West as seven states struggle to agree on how to divide water from the mighty Colorado River. California has played hardball with its neighbor states ...

Colorado River in Crisis: A Times series on the Southwest’s shrinking water lifeline Colorado River in Crisis is a series of stories, videos and podcasts in which Los Angeles Times journalists ...

A major crisis appears to have been avoided, for now anyway, water experts say. But the winter snow and spring rains aren’t enough to wash away the bigger picture that the Colorado River is ...

JB Hamby saying if Colorado doesn't agree to make cuts, Denver's water supply could could be disrupted, because of longstanding water rights that give farmers first crack over cities.

City officials say recent heavy rain across southern Colorado led to a surge of debris in French Creek, the city's main water source and a backup pipeline is currently under repair. "We have an ...

The Colorado River supplies water to roughly ... remarkably complex and ill-suited to short-term adaptive strategies. Today’s water crisis has been building since 2000, when, ironically, the ...