Colorado

To Save Their Water Supply, Colorado Farmers Taxed Themselves

A sign advertising a water sale sits on a farm outside Del Norte, Colorado. The Western U.S. is just starting…

6 years ago

Study: 170-billion-gallon water savings per year via water-efficient toilets

The "Saturation Study of Non-Efficient Water Closets in Key States" focused on Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia and Texas. 40 out…

6 years ago

U.S.A. Household Water Use Continues to Decline

A neighborhood in Weld County, Colorado, one of the few states where household water use is increasing. Photo © J.…

6 years ago

Water under Colorado’s Eastern Plains running dry as farmers irrigate “great American desert”

WRAY — Colorado farmers who defied nature’s limits and nourished a pastoral paradise by irrigating drought-prone prairie are pushing ahead…

6 years ago

In water-scarce Southwest, ancient irrigation system disrupts big agriculture

Water in the American Southwest has never been abundant. Its availability fluctuates depending on conditions like drought and mountain snowpack…

6 years ago