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Davidson College alum Adde Sharp ’20 is leading a project to restore the health of the Colorado River, a source of water for more than 40 million people. Read more.

Cloud seeding uses airplanes or ground equipment to waft rain-and-snow-making particles into clouds.

Back in February, I wrote a column in an attempt to explain how water rights and allocations work in the West and in Colorado. It was a response to some rather simplistic solutions to the...

A century-old miscalculation about Colorado River's flow has California and Arizona fighting over water rights. Again.

A technique to get clouds to produce more snow is being used more as the Rocky Mountain region struggles with a two-decade drought. Cloud seeding involves using planes and ground-based

The federal government recently has acted to address the effects of the “megadrought” in the western half of the United States. The megadrought, changing climate conditions, and population growth have magnified the need for additional infrastructure and water supply solutions in the Colorado River Basin.

A plan to prop up Colorado River reservoirs could for the first time spread shortages evenly across Arizona and other states that use its water.

Garrett Cammans and his brothers sometimes dont talk about their toughest moments on the job in the cloud seeding business, like the time when one of them got stuck in deep mountain snow and had to hike out alone in the dark.

LYONS, Colo. (AP) — Garrett Cammans and his brothers sometimes don’t talk about their toughest moments on the job in the cloud seeding business, like the time when one of them got stuck in deep mounta

A technique to get clouds to produce more snow is being used more as the Rocky Mountain region struggles with a two-decade drought. Cloud seeding involves using planes and ground-based equipment to put silver iodide into clouds when weather conditions are right.