Sporting sandals, swim shorts and baseball caps — and hopefully plenty of sunscreen — a cohort of state lawmakers hopped ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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

Like arteries, its major tributaries take shape across Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico, coming together in a great river like no other — a river that travels more than 1,400 miles and has ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...