Colorado River

Colorado River Basin’s largest users look to conservation strategies, while negotiators work on future

Approved, Law Week Colorado, Local / /

While water may cover 71% of the Earth’s surface, it’s frequently been in short supply in Colorado and across the West. As the climate changes and the Colorado River Basin sees dry days ahead, negotiators from the states that share its water and the Native Americans who have used it for centuries are hard at work to create a sustainable framework for the basin’s future. 

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Invasive, fast-reproducing zebra mussels found in Colorado River near Grand Junction

Approved, State, The Colorado Sun / / ,

Voracious zebra mussels appear to be spreading into the Colorado River near Grand Junction and infesting the Government Highline canal watering Mesa County farms, less than two years after the invasive species first appeared in a Western Slope lake, wildlife officials said Tuesday. 

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