It’s time to stop shipping water across the Rockies
It was 1952 when the cities of Aurora and Colorado Springs first started gobbling up water rights in a remote,…
10,000 year old high altitude fen slated for drowning by Colorado Springs and Augora, CO
MoreThe Colorado River is sending a message
The region lived without them before, and it can live without them again. Now, nature is forcing our hand, telling us that it’s time to breach the dam and let the Colorado River run free.
Image above of Willow Creek Canyon once a popular side canyon for boaters. Now a sandy wash. Image courtesy of Glen Canyon Institute staff.
MoreAs Lake Powell dwindles, wonders open up
It would take us another day and a half of increasingly arduous travel to finally enter Lake Powell
MoreLooking back to when water was plentiful
During his 50 years in rural western Colorado, Jamie Jacobson has seen a lot of flooding. While caretaking a farm…
MorePumping up fear along the Colorado River
Some Colorado River tribulations today remind me of a folk story: A young man went to visit his fiancé and…
Photograph by JC Peacock, courtesy of Unsplash
MoreWater can be wrung out too much
“But when Western cities grow, they look everywhere for more water, with little regard for the rivers they drain. “
Santa Fe River below Santa Fe Municipal Water Treatment Plant. Photograph courtesy of Allen Best.
MoreAn Idaho congressman aims to dump dams
Rep. Mike Simpson is a conservative Republican from Idaho whose concept of wildness in the 1990s was going into the…
Photograph courtesy of Rocky Barker
MoreWho Calls the Shots on the Colorado River?
Once you pay for fallowed fields, you’ll end up with landowners who are investors first, like Water Asset Management.
Photograph by Jon Flobrant, courtesy of Unsplash
MoreWhen Water Dries Up, It Can Be Deadly
“The dams that choke the Klamath River may be finally nearing removal”
Photograph by Markus Spiske, Courtesy of Unsplash
MoreA Move Toward Water Speculation
“Just talking about demand management has already attracted deep-pocketed investors..”
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MoreA Clear Warning About the Colorado River
For the West this summer, the news about water was grim. In some parts of California, it didn’t rain for…
Photograph by Ken Cheung, Courtesy of Unsplash
MoreIf the Water Goes, the Desert Moves in
“Without water, you’ve got nothing around here.”
Photograph by David Marston
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