According to Skiles, the amount of dust found in Utah snow is largely due to human activity, adding that settlements and ...

Fallowing can be a touchy subject with agriculture producers, who fear losing their water rights or losing their livelihood.

Dust-on-snow is a major threat to water in the Colorado River, yet no snowmelt forecasts integrate dust-accelerated melt. Using pioneering remote sensing techniques, new research is the first to ...

Utah is using a technology that can add more water to the state's supply. Others in the Colorado River basin are looking to ...

The Colorado River and its reservoirs supply water to the 40 million people across the West who rely on the Colorado River.

But the other Colorado River Basin states -- California, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming -- lag far behind. Colorado recycles less than 3.6% of municipal wastewater, while Wyoming recycles ...

Utah lawmakers have given the state more voice in negotiations over the Colorado and Bear rivers. The move, however, has some environmentalists concerned about the sensitive multi-state agreements ...

The Wave may be one of the oldest and most familiar examples of land managers instituting a system to protect special places ...

The 1,450-mile Colorado River provides drinking water and agricultural ... Wyoming 3.3 percent and Utah less than 1 percent, according to the study. “This is a striking divide,” co-author ...

Upper river states are trying to avoid giving up ... In 2023, the commission and its member states (Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming) began installing and re-activating stream gages, eddy ...

found that other states in the Colorado River Basin are trailing, with New Mexico recycling 18%; Colorado, 3.6%; Wyoming, 3.3%; and Utah, less than 1%. “We’re facing a hotter, drier future and ...