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The healthy snowpack whitening Colorado’s mountain peaks has given water officials some breathing room to manage the Colorado River Basin’s ongoing drought. The challenge will be not to squander it. A...

LAKE TAHOE, Nev. - As the California water officials were conducting their monthly snow survey on Monday, Nevada officials were doing the same.

Colorado River will need a new water distribution plan.

The snow is deepest in the southwestern part of the state, where the San Juan/Dolores River Basin is seeing a snowpack of 179% of average. Such deep mountain snow is good news, but what really matters is how reservoirs and soil moisture are replenished when it melts.

Deep mountain snow is good news, but what really matters is how reservoirs and soil moisture are replenished when it melts.

Behind the scenes water management updates from the Aspen Journalism Water Desk editor and reporter, Heather Sackett.

WASHINGTON — Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives have created a Congressional Colorado River Caucus to address relentless drought conditions across the Colorado River Basin that is leaving states and tribes short of water. “Seein...

A group of congress members from Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California and Arizona is gathering to talk about the Colorado River and rally funding for Western water projects.

“I suppose a new owner could make an effort to rezone the property as residential, but they could only preserve what is here,” said Christopher Peacock, the resort’s general manager.

IMPERIAL COUNTY — “It’s snowing!” is how Imperial Irrigation District Water Manager Tina Shields began her hydrology report at the March 21 regular meeting. The water manager’s monthly reports have