In 2025, the Water Desk brought readers authoritative reporting on water quality issues in the Roaring Fork Valley, invasive ...

The high-stakes fourth tool — which water managers across the basin are counting on to rescue reservoirs, set a new management paradigm and provide long-term stability to the system — is new ...

Snowpack hasn’t been this low since December 1999 As of Dec. 29, snowpack in the Roaring Fork basin is at 3.4 inches of snow water equivalent (SWE) or 53% of normal. Last year, snowpack held 6.7 ...

Federal water officials addressed the increasingly grim river conditions and laid out their options for dealing with plummeting reservoir levels over the first two days of the largest annual gathering ...

Lake Powell at Wahweap Marina as seen in December 2021. Dwindling streamflows and falling reservoir levels have made it more likely that what some experts call a Colorado River Compact “tripwire” will ...

From left, J.B. Hamby, chair of the Colorado River Board of California, Tom Buschatzke, Arizona Department of Water Resources; Becky Mitchell, Colorado representative to the Upper Colorado River ...

Michael and Sara Carlton reminisce in their kitchen about the process of buying their home in the town of Eagle, which they purchased with the assistance of Eagle County’s “Good Deeds” buydown program ...

As an Aspen Journalism donor, thank you for making this reporting possible! Like a lot of his neighbors, John Sullivan looks down his Apple Tree Park street and across the Colorado River toward the ...

As an Aspen Journalism donor, thank you for making this reporting possible! In 2012, one of the driest years in Colorado in recent memory, the Crystal River practically dried up. Ken Neubecker, a ...

Thank you for your support of Aspen Journalism! Your support made this work possible. Thank you. West Slope water managers say they are being cut out of the process to review and approve applications ...

Sketch by Lt. C. H. McCauley, Third U.S. Cavalry, of the Meeker tragedy at the White River Ute Indian Agency, Sept. 29 1879, Rio Blanco County, Colorado, showing soldiers and officials surveying the ...

Cattails at the edge of a manmade pond that is part of the Snowmass wetlands will be dredged and less than 1/10th of an acre will be filled in to accommodate a reoriented rodeo grounds in Snowmass ...