Tribal nations, Arizona and over 30 other stakeholders have just days to get a historic water rights settlement through Congress, and they’ll have to get past pushback from Upper Basin states, including Colorado, to do it.
In race to push a landmark water bill through Congress, Colorado is one state in the way Read More »
Since Dwight Eisenhower was president, tiny Middle Park Water Conservancy District has hoarded a precious gem: 20,000 acre-feet of water rights on Troublesome Creek, near Kremmling, and the authority to build a dam for it.
Did Middle Park sell $1 billion of water for 10 bucks? Read More »
To reduce the amount of fresh water used in oil-and-gas drilling, operators must ensure a certain percentage of water they are using in extraction is reused or recycled under a plan set to be released in the next week by a legislatively created advisory group.
New rules would limit use of fresh water in oil-and-gas operations Read More »
GOP vice-presidential candidate JD Vance is expected to sit down for a podcast interview with Joe Rogan on Wednesday this week. This comes on the heels of Donald Trump’s appearance on the podcast with Rogan last week.
J.D. Vance to go on ‘Joe Rogan Experience’ on Wednesday Read More »
When a city must find its water 50 miles away and 1,400 feet underground, in an aquifer whose origins first had to be pegged to the late Cretaceous and the early Paleogene periods, and further delineated between Colorado turf on the surface or Wyoming land just a skosh to the north, while drilling two-way wells at $1 million each on the way to an eventual price tag approaching $400 million, and then filter out dissolved uranium, it would seem a stretch to call this plan the easy way out.
From Greeley to Pueblo, Front Range cities still need new water storage Read More »
Water is essential. Everyone needs it, from cities to farms, but how it is managed can be quite a puzzle.
Water roundtable sought common ground to secure a future with water Read More »
A year has passed since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Sackett v. EPA and its impact on America’s water regulation is unmistakable.
Linnebur: A look at Sackett v EPA’s rechanneling of water governance in America Read More »
Many residents in a small but growing town in northern Colorado are accusing the town of increasing water bill rates to levels that are unaffordable, leaving many to wonder if there is a system error while others are contemplating moving. Wellington, a town of nearly 12,000 people, is at the center of the dispute.
It’s time to take a second look at that monthly water bill: For some Coloradans, the cost of turning on the tap has been rising for decades, and experts say it is primed to keep climbing.
Has your water bill gone up? Some Coloradans have seen increases up to 600% Read More »
A Colorado environmental group has taken legal action against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, seeking to overturn a $2 billion project that aims to redirect river water to the state’s expanding northern communities.
