Colorado

The Colorado River is evaporating, and climate change is largely to blame

Photo: Colorado River water held back by the Hoover Dam. IMAGE: SHUTTERSTOCK / ROCKET PHOTOS - HQ STOCK Reprinted from…

5 years ago

El Paso to drink treated sewage water due to climate change drought

Video: Sanjay Gupta assesses climate change impact 04:20 (CNN) The people of El Paso, Texas, are resilient. Living in the…

5 years ago

PARCHED: Climate change and growth are pushing Colorado toward a water crisis

Photo: Russian thistle in a former reservoir along the Colorado River in Hite, October 2018. (Photo by John Herrick) Gov.…

5 years ago

Plan for Colorado River draws on Blue Mesa, Flaming Gorge reservoirs

Historic proposal to create a conservation bank of water in Lake Powell fed by reservoirs in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and…

6 years ago

Farmers drawing groundwater from Ogallala Aquifer faster than nature replaces it

Every summer the U.S. Central Plains go dry, leading farmers to tap into groundwater to irrigate sorghum, soy, cotton, wheat…

6 years ago