Western Water Reporting
A reporting project covering water, drought, runoff, snowmelt, rivers, ponds, dams, deltas, and more.
Throughout the history of the American West, water issues have shown their ability to both unite and divide communities. As an imbalance between water supplies and demands grows in the region, KSUT is committed to covering the stories that emerge.
Reporters Luke Runyon and Alex Hager cover the Colorado River basin. They report from the snowy headwaters in Colorado to Lakes Powell and Mead, to the river's delta in Mexico.
KSUT is a member of Western Water Reporting along with stations throughout Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, California, Nevada, Wyoming, and Kansas. Stories are produced at KUNC in Greeley, Colorado.
Latest Stories
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Luke Runyon/KUNC/The nation’s second-largest reservoir, Lake Powell, is now at its lowest point since it filled in the 1960s. -
Alex Hager/The Colorado River supplies drinking water for some of the West’s biggest cities, but a lot of them lie outside the watershed. Canals, tunnels, and pipelines from the river keep water flowing to their taps. And the infrastructure also puts pressure on the fragile river, especially in dry times.
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Emergency water releases from reservoirs upstream of Lake Powell are underway to preserve the nation’s second-largest reservoir’s ability to generate hydroelectric power. -
A question has bothered climatologist Park Williams during the decade he’s been probing drought in the Southwest.
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The Colorado River is tapped out.Another dry year has left the waterway that supplies 40 million people in the Southwest parched. A prolonged 21-year warming and drying trend is pushing the nation’s two largest reservoirs to record lows. For the first time this summer, the federal government will declare a shortage.
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Another dry year has left the waterway that supplies 40 million people in the Southwest parched. A prolonged 21-year warming and drying trend is pushing the nation’s two largest reservoirs to record lows. For the first time this summer, the federal government will declare a shortage.
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During the past ten months, KSUT has continued to broaden its scope of local and regional news and information, complementing the station's national and…
