Colorado River

Drought in the West took a national stage as water leaders from seven states and two tribes testified in the house. They pushed for collaboration as supplies dwindle.

The latest Utah news from Thursday morning, Oct. 7, 2021.

The Colorado River system is in dire conditions because of the region’s drought. Utah hasn’t faced water cuts yet, but officials are urging more conservation.

The latest Utah news from Monday evening, August, 16, 2021.

The Colorado River through the Grand Canyon National Park holds lessons for managing an essential and diminishing resource in a rapidly warming climate.

The latest Utah news from Thursday evening, August 12, 2021.

Seven years ago, a pulse of water on the Colorado River at the U.S.-Mexico border temporarily reconnected it to the Pacific Ocean. Scientists used the so-called “pulse flow” to study what plant and animal life returned to the desiccated delta along with water.

Washington Post Columnist David Von Drehle recently wrote an opinion piece about the drought gripping the West. Though the situation is dire, Von Drehle said there’s reason to be hopeful.

About 80% of Colorado’s water falls on the western side of the state. But about 80% of Colorado’s people live on the east side of the mountains. Because of gravity, that water doesn’t flow to them naturally. Instead, Colorado’s heavily-populated Front Range relies on a massive plumbing system to keep drinking water flowing to its taps.

The latest Utah news from Friday evening, July 16, 2021.

A massive new infrastructure bill is slowly moving its way through Congress this summer. But a coalition of elected officials, farmers, conservationists and tribal leaders want to make sure it doesn’t include new big pipelines or dams along the parched Colorado River.

Emergency water releases from reservoirs upstream of Lake Powell have begun to preserve the nation’s second-largest reservoir’s ability to generate hydroelectric power.