Shared from the 8/7/2020 The Denver Post eEditionBy Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
100% of Colorado in drought
Hot and dry conditions are hammering Colorado, intensifying a 20-year shift toward aridity. On Thursday, federal officials designated 100% of the state abnormally dry or in drought for the...
Shared from the 8/30/2020 The Denver Post eEdition
Impact of hotter times By Bruce Finley The Denver Post
The sun beat down, baking Colorado’s bone-dry, cracking San Luis Valley, where farmers for eight years have been trying to save their depleted underground water but are falling behin...
Shared from the 6/28/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Jim Robbins
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CUT BANK, MONT.» A century ago, one of the first of the ambitious federal water projects that helped build the West was constructed to carry water from the mountains of Glacier National Park hundreds of ...
Shared from the 4/24/2020 The Denver Post eEdition
WASHINGTON » The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that sewage plants and other industries cannot avoid environmental requirements under landmark clean-water protections when they send dirty water on an indirect route to rivers, oceans and other na...
Shared from the 9/13/2019 The Denver Post eEdition
TRUMP ADMINISTRATI
By John Flesher
The Associated Press, Shared from The Denver Post
TRAVERSE CITY, MICH.» The Trump administration on Thursday revoked an Obama-era regulation that shielded many U.S. wetlands and streams from poll...
UPDATED ON: SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 / 11:48 AM / CBS NEWS
The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce Thursday that it has finalized a repeal of the Obama-era clean water rule that spells out protections for large and small bodies of water, according to two congressional aides familiar w...
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PUBLISHED: September 10, 2019 at 6:00 am | UPDATED: September 10, 2019 at 9:16 am
Groundwater tests over the past year have detected high levels of toxic “forever chemicals” across the Denver metro area, contamination that’s both w...
By Somini Sengupta and Weiyi CaiAug. 6, 2019
Today, among cities with more than 3 million people, World Resources Institute researchers concluded that 33 of them, with a combined population of over 255 million, face extremely high water stress, with repercussions for public health and social unrest...
Shared from the 4/9/2019 The Denver Post eEdition
DROUGHT CONTINGENCY PLAN
Congress OKs Colorado River agreement
By The Associated Press
PHOENIX» A plan to address a shrinking supply of water on a river that serves 40 million people in the U.S. West is headed to President Donald Trump.
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Extract from Char Miller, The Conversation
Perspectives, The Denver Post, August 12
The High Plains water bank is being drained, under 8 states this has been the largest underground source of fresh water. Its the most important source of water across the high plains region. At current withdr...
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RIO GRANDE
Thirst for water clouds the future
By Bruce Finley The Denver Post

Alfalfa hay grower Cleave Simpson, who serves as general manager of the Rio Grande Water Conservation District, decided not to plant as much of the...
Streamflow in the West
By Robert Harris, Senior Staff Attorney | May 8th, 2018
The healthiest flowing rivers in the West have one thing in common: a robust streamflow sufficient to meet all of the diverse uses of rivers. Flowing rivers sustain wetlands, provid...
By Chris Mooney
The Washington Post

A grounded ship sits on the dry bed of the Aral Sea, which is about 62 miles from Aralsk, Kazakhstan. The Aral, the world’s fourth-largest freshwater sea, once covered an area the size of Ireland. But then it became part of the Soviet Union. The Communists div...
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WATER ISSUES
NOAA: Outlook grim for Colorado River
By Dan Elliott
The Associated Press
The outlook for the most important river in the Southwestern U.S. remains grim this summer after April storms failed to produce much snow in the mountains th...
WRAY»Colorado farmers who defied nature’s limits and nourished a pastoral paradise by irrigating drought-prone prairie are pushing ahead in the face of worsening environmental fallout: Overpumping of groundwater has drained the High Plains Aquifer to the point that streams are drying up at the rate ...
AIR FORCE ONE TO VEHICLE CITY: President Barack Obama makes his first trip to Flint, Mich., today, turning the national spotlight once again to the impoverished community where lead-contaminated water has been pouring from the taps for more than two years. The former General Motors town had its...
Water scarcity has long been a problem. But climate change, a growing global population and economic growth are putting the natural resource under even more stress.
Brown with rust two ships stand like stone upright in the yellow sand. The wind swirls salty air around the the trawlers, silence ...
The Los Angeles River has once again come to life, supercharged with rainwater. Freeways have flooded. And California’s Sierra Nevada mountains — the so-called “snowy mountains” — are living up to their name.
This is all thanks to the huge ocean-atmosphere event Jet Propulsion Laboratory cli...
The rainfall and snowpack so far this autumn have been encouraging, but the stubborn reality is that California is still mired in drought. While farmers from Bakersfield to Fresno to Redding are screaming about water quotas, California residents say they are doing what they can, from pulli...
