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COLORADO Snowpack beating norm Arkansas River Basin is 11% below normal

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 23 March 2023 in Water Conservation

By Bruce Finley This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Colorado’s mountain snowpack heading into spring on Wednesday measured at 136% of the 30-year norm — an indicator that water supplies could swell depending on the overall drought, soil moisture, melting rates and future precipitation. “The snowpack h...

Cutting outdoor water use stymied by landscape code

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 21 March 2023 in Water Conservation

COMMERCE CITY City rules don’t allow residents to tear out turf from grass strip between sidewalk, road By John Aguilar This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. COMMERCE CITY>> Derek Rinehart wants to disrupt the cohesion in his neighborhood — and he wants to save hundreds of gallons of water doing it. Bu...

WESTERN DROUGHT Spring outlook finds relief and flood risk

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 21 March 2023 in Water Conservation

The Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE>> Record snowfall and rain have helped to loosen drought’s grip on parts of the West as national forecasters and climate experts warned Thursday that some areas should expect more flooding as the snow begins to melt. The winter precipitation wiped out...

LAS VEGAS Water agency seeks power to limit residential use ^Featured

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 16 March 2023 in Water Conservation

By Gabe Stern The Associated Press CARSON CITY, Nev.>> Nevada lawmakers are considering a remarkable shift in allowing the water agency that manages the Colorado River supply for Las Vegas to limit single-family residential use in the desert city and surrounding county. It’s another potenti...

CALIFORNIA misses chance to store more rain underground

Posted by GreenDog on Monday, 27 February 2023 in Water Conservation

By Raymond Zhong The New York Times It sounds like an obvious fix for California’s whipsawing cycles of deluge and drought: Capture the water from downpours so it can be used during dry spells. Pump it out of flood-engorged rivers and spread it in fields or sandy basins, where it can seep into th...

5 key facts about the rapidly drying Colorado River (a quick read)

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 14 December 2022 in Water Conservation

The water crisis is intensifying, bringing supply issues, higher cost-of-living and impacts to tourism and agriculture By CONRAD SWANSON | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | The Denver Post PUBLISHED: July 21, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. | UPDATED: July 22, 2022 at 6:10 p.m. With each passing decade the Colorado Ri...

Wonder, worry collide at Utah’s famed salt flats

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 08 November 2022 in Water Conservation

By Rick Bowmer and Sam Metz The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — The Bonneville Salt Flats sit just off of a highway in a state nowhere near the ocean, but in parts they glimmer as white as a Caribbean beach. Truck drivers, selfie-stick wielding tourists and gamblers driving to the casinos of Wes...

Western states propose deal over beleaguered Rio Grande

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 27 October 2022 in Water Conservation

By Susan Montoya Bryan The Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE>> New Mexico, Texas and Colorado have negotiated a proposed settlement that they say will end a years-long battle over management of one of the longest rivers in North America, but the federal government and two irriga...

“Water’s on everyone’s mind”

Posted by GreenDog on Friday, 21 October 2022 in Water Conservation

2nd area municipality clamps down on lawns, a month after Aurora passed similar measure By John Aguilar This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Coming to a yard near you — everything but the lawn. Castle Rock this week became the second metro-area municipality in as many months to pass a measure severel...

WATER, Aurora, CO commits to conservation

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 15 September 2022 in Water Conservation

By Saja Hindi The Denver Post The Aurora City Council tackled several water issues Monday night, giving the final stamp of approval to the mayor’s proposal that would prohibit cool-weather grass for new golf courses and reduce the amount of grass in new developments. The City Council had to vote ...

COLORADO RIVER Feds impose deeper water cuts amid drought, overuse

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 18 August 2022 in Water Conservation

By Conrad Swanson The Denver Post Seven Western states and the 40 million people in them that depend on the Colorado River can’t yet agree on how to use less water and on Tuesday federal officials told them to cut even deeper. The river is drying and the states through which it flows — Arizona, C...

Water Consumption Statistics

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 10 August 2022 in Water Conservation

Water Consumption Statistics, Lawnstarter Safe and easily accessible water is vital for the entire population, whether for drinking, domestic use, and agricultural production. Even while public awareness of water usage has increased in recent years, much more can be done in this area....

Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming published a plan this week to appease federal officials wanting to save water from the drying Colorado River

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 27 July 2022 in Water Conservation

By Conrad Swanson The Denver Post Water officials from Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming published a plan this week to appease federal officials wanting to save water from the drying Colorado River but didn’t include any specific, mandatory cuts to save the precious resource. &nb...

Western U.S. states scrambling for water

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 28 April 2022 in Water Conservation

By Susan Montoya Bryan The Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE » Tumbleweeds drift along the Rio Grande as sand bars within its banks widen. Smoke from distant wildfires and dust kicked up by intense spring winds fill the valley, exacerbating the feeling of distress that is beginning to w...

Neb. lawmakers OK $500M water plan

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 20 April 2022 in Water Conservation

By The Associated Press LINCOLN, NEB. » Nebraska lawmakers gave final approval Tuesday to a bill that would let the state build a canal in Colorado to divert water out of the South Platte River, a project steeped in fears about the Denver area’s growing water consumption. Lawmakers...

Dropping Lake Powell soon may not be able to generate power

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 20 April 2022 in Water Conservation

Federal officials weigh emergency actions to reduce flow into Colorado River By Felicia Fonseca The Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ. » Federal officials say it may be necessary to reduce water deliveries to users on the Colorado River to prevent the shutdown of a huge dam that supplies h...

States partner to seed clouds for rain ^Featured

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 05 April 2022 in Water Conservation

As the West gets drier, Colorado tries to get every drop of moisture it can out of winter snowstorms By Conrad Swanson The Denver Post All across Colorado, teams of cloud seeders keep watch over the winter months, looking for the right conditions to make water. Snow, to be precise. But t...

Need for water

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 01 March 2022 in Water Conservation

Firm says proposal a win for area; critics call it a “buy and dry” scheme By Conrad Swanson The Denver Post ALAMOSA » Trouble swirls above the aquifers of Colorado’s San Luis Valley, where farmers and ranchers raise and grow much of the region’s cattle, potatoes, alfalfa and barley. Those aquife...

Water groups endorse proposed $500 million canal in Colorado

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 15 February 2022 in Water Conservation

By Grant Schulte The Associated Press LINCOLN, NEB. » Nebraska water regulators rallied Wednesday behind a proposal to build a $500 million canal in neighboring Colorado to divert water out of the South Platte River, a project steeped in fears that the fast-growing Denver area will consume most of...

Ski resorts scrutinize systems in drought

Posted by GreenDog on Friday, 28 January 2022 in Water Conservation

By Thomas Peipert The Associated Press The sight can be jarring during extreme drought: snowmaking guns lined up on a mountainside, blasting precious crystal flakes on a ski run while the rest of the land goes thirsty. Snowpack in the U.S. West has decreased by about 20% in the last century, maki...

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LAS VEGAS Water agency seeks power to limit residential use Featured

States partner to seed clouds for rain Featured

LAS VEGAS Water agency seeks power to limit residential use ^Featured

States partner to seed clouds for rain ^Featured