Colorado has started preliminary planning for a multiagency drought task force to help cope with what most experts fear will ...

CBS News Denver reports that plans to substantially increase Bear Creek Lake in Lakewood have been scrapped for now, a move that local park advocates are celebrating. Read more on this story here.

AZCentral reports that several Arizona cities have banded together to fund a media campaign blasting looming Colorado River cuts. The message: Arizona could be wiped “off the map.” Read more on this ...

Lake Powell could receive only half the normal amount of water from upstream rivers and streams this year, according to a ...

The Washington Post reports that a federal judge has ordered changes to hydropower plant operations on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest to protect salmon after a decades-long ...

Colorado’s snowpack is hugging record lows or crawling past them in some areas thanks to a series of storms that dropped snow on the state since Feb. 11. As much as 50 inches of snow fell on some ...

Wyoming’s Oil City News reports that the drought has already triggered mandatory cutbacks on Wyoming’s North Platte River, with cities and farms impacted. Read more on this story here.

Nevada’s Prescott News reports that a water trial involving a drying Nevada Lake could be resolved with a public-private water sharing initiative and changes to water law that might aid other problem ...

Utah’s Fox13 News reports that California Gov. Gavin Newsom is supportive of Utah’s ideas around helping pay for desalination plants in the Lower Colorado River Basin in exchange for shares in the ...

With winter snowpack ranking as Colorado’s largest reservoir — and its least understood — scientists and water managers are developing new insights into the factors influencing snow accumulation and ...

As two major new water storage projects designed to capture the flows of the drought-strapped Colorado River are rising on Colorado’s urban Front Range, observers say they represent the end of an era ...

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