Tag: water
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With no 7-state deal, federal agency turns to 10-year Colorado River strategy
The U.S. Department of the Interior is moving forward with a 10-year framework for managing the Colorado River after 2026, outlining a plan to issue new operating guidelines every two years as the seven basin states remain unable to reach an agreement. Even so, the Trump administration is still pushing for a seven-state process to…
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Polis declares statewide drought emergency
Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday declared a statewide drought emergency, citing the record-low snowpack and prolonged warmer temperatures across Colorado. He also activated the next phase of the state’s drought response plan. Polis had placed Colorado under Phase 2 in March. “Today, I am issuing a statewide drought emergency to support Coloradans, our economy, farmers…
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Tapped: Facing similar drought conditions, Utah declares emergency while Colorado relies on Phase 2 response
Editor’s Note: The Front Range sits at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines the interconnected systems that determine how the region secures, stores, and conserves its water while navigating the competing demands of fast‑growing urban communities and the increasingly unpredictable mountain snowpack that underpins…
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Tapped: As fire risk climbs, Colorado faces threat to drinking water
Specialists surveying Colorado’s forests know this year will be challenging. Snow melted too quickly, strong winds dried out the trees, and the early signs of danger are already settling across the landscape. Wildfire season is no longer confined to a few months — it’s a year‑round reality, they said. And this year, the risk is…
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Year-round gardening: Tips for saving water in dry year
By Kim SnowdonColorado Master Gardener “When the well is dry, we learn the worth of water.” — Benjamin Franklin Colorado set lots of precipitation records last winter, and most were bad from a gardening standpoint. Record-low snowpack and record-high temperatures mean the region is likely facing strict water restrictions this summer. Many communities have already implemented…
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Energy constraints loom larger than water for Colorado AI boom, experts say
As artificial intelligence reshapes almost every sector of the economy, experts at this year’s Colorado Climate Week gathering in Boulder said it is also reshaping local physical infrastructure. From grid demand and water use to data center construction, scaling the necessary framework to support AI, they said, will be a challenge as experts and policymakers…
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Colorado’s ‘best beach’ may not appear this year because of low snowpack
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in Camping, colorado news, environment, Hiking, Lifestyle, News, Outdoors, Things to Do, travel, WeatherMedano Creek — a seasonal waterway that cuts directly next to Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes — may not have enough snow runoff to reach its usual location. Visitors to Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes National Park this spring and early summer may miss out on a surreal seasonal attraction. Due to a dry winter with below-average…
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Colorado plans to slash interim committee work amid budget woes
In a tight-budget year, the work of interim committees — those off-session groups that look at transportation, agriculture, water, healthcare, wildfires, pensions, and anything else lawmakers want to look at — is on the chopping block. And this year, no committee is considered sacrosanct. A bill introduced Thursday by the legislative leadership from both parties…
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Historic Colorado town faces spiraling water, administration crises
AGUILAR – “Not a lot happens in Aguilar to crowd out old memories,” Larry Batson observed in a 1984 profile of the town for the Star Tribune in Minnesota. Decades later, Aguilar’s old memories still have plenty of room to roam. Boarded-up facades that wouldn’t be out of place in an old Western movie recall…
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Colorado lawmakers mull competing bills on data centers
A Colorado coalition of data center developers and operators is urging lawmakers to pass a proposal that offers tax breaks to attract large facilities, while calling a competing bill a major obstacle to new investment. Meanwhile, proponents of the latter proposal have maintained they don’t intend to ban, via regulation, the building of new data…