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The Central Colorado Humanists Sunday Science program will focus on issues concerning the Colorado River at 10 a.m. April 2 in the Salida Rotary Scout Hut, 210 E. Sackett Ave.

The program for the upcoming Central Colorado Humanists Sunday Science scheduled for April 2 will feature journalist Allen Best, whose regular Big Pivots

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With major western reservoirs like Lake Powell and Lake Mead declining to historic low levels, water officials in New Mexico presented on the dire Upper Colorado River Basin conditions to the Senate Conservation Committee on Thursday. Estevan Lopez, the state’s Upper Colorado River Compact Commissioner and the governor’s representative on Colorado River matters, spoke about […]

Persistent drought could finally force resolution of the debate over how to account for evaporative losses in the West's major waterway.

The Glen Canyon is thought to be one of Americas lost national parks, as it was flooded with the construction of Lake Powell.

As Western states haggle over reducing water use because of declining flows in the Colorado River Basin, a more hopeful drama is playing out in Glen Canyon.

The areas leaders have known for decades that their water use was unsustainable, and offered no solutions.

Debate over Colorado River cutbacks centers on whether water lost to evaporation should be counted. Changing the formula would hit California hard.