If you are new to Colorado, winters can be bone dry for long stretches. That means you need to drag out the hoses and give every plant another deep drink or two between snow events. Garden cleanup ...

The mountains that feed the Colorado River with snowmelt are strikingly dry, with many ranges holding less than 50% of their ...

A dry creek ... your garden and channels it to a suitable exit point. If you're struggling with a slope or a low spot in your ...

Over the last century, the river's flow has dropped by 20 percent, according to data from the U.S. Geological Survey. A photo shows the Colorado River from above and a dried river bed. The ...

Water users and managers watch the Upper Basin closely, especially in April, when the snow usually reaches its deepest levels and begins to melt into the Colorado River or its tributaries. A dry ...

Water-supply forecasts in the Upper Colorado River Basin — above Lake Powell — are more promising than in the Lower Basin. A dry January across the basin erased the gains from early December ...

For decades, so much water has been diverted to supply farms and cities that the Colorado River has seldom met the sea and much of its delta in Mexico has been reduced to a dry riverbed ...

Imagine this grim scenario: The drought that has plagued the Colorado River over the past two decades ... recent years exposing a contaminated lake bed and threatening nearby communities with ...