Up-basin in Colorado River tributaries in Eagle County — where naturally occurring salinity is very low — Interstate 70 probably accounts for the largest input of salt, Kanzer said.

A visual journey along the Colorado River, ... a city of about 715,000 that draws about 50% of its drinking water from tributaries of the Colorado River west of the Continental Divide.

PALISADE, Colo. — Known for its incredible beauty as it carves through Colorado’s central mountains, the Colorado River and its tributaries are a crucial water source vital to 40 million people.

Over time, man-made dams, levees and other land management decisions have disconnected the Colorado River from its tributaries and wetlands. This both degrades water quality and makes it harder to ...

Water is rushing from Colorado’s Western Slope and into the tributaries of the Colorado River, restoring reservoirs across the American West to perhaps a semblance of their former glory. Cities ...

Colorado River states remain divided on sharing water, ... The Ute Mountain Ute reservation also gets water from the Colorado River tributaries.

Colorado River tributaries serve relatively small portions of northwest and southwest New Mexico, but the basin’s water is essential for the state’s largest city: Albuquerque.

The basin’s snowpack typically peaks in early April before melting into the Colorado River and its tributaries over the spring and summer, eventually flowing into Lake Powell and Lake Mead.

President Biden promised billions in funds to farmers and others to not take water from the Colorado River. President Trump is halting some of those funds, leaving questions about the river's future.

The river is shrinking due to climate change, which means the nation's two largest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, created by dams on the Colorado River, have reached record low levels in ...

The source of salinity depends on where you are in the Colorado River Basin and when you’re looking. Up-basin in Colorado River tributaries in Eagle County — where naturally occurring salinity is very ...