United Water District

09/12/2022

The Olde Town Arvada water tower is lit in blue tonight in honor of Officer Dillon Vakoff.

📸 Pattrik Perez

09/11/2022

Imagine the group of Corgis waiting to greet her at the Rainbow Bridge. 🌈 Rest in Peace, Queen Elizabeth, fellow dog lover...

04/06/2022

03/31/2022

Douglas County needs water and is looking to the San Luis Valley.

Castle Rock’s building boom has barely slowed over the past 20 years and its appetite for growth and need for water hasn’t slowed much either. The city, which ranks No. 1 in the state for water conservation, will still need to at least double its water supplies in the next 40 years to cope with ...

02/15/2022

A way to farm that uses less water. https://coloradosun.com/2022/02/13/regenerative-agriculture-colorado-water/?pico=clean&utm_source=The+Colorado+Sun+Newsletters&utm_campaign=209a9d04b6-SUNDAY_20220206_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_61e0bd63dc-209a9d04b6-66871270&mc_cid=209a9d04b6&mc_eid=55339b8ed8

https://coloradosun.com/2022/02/13/regenerative-agriculture-colorado-water/?pico=clean&utm_source=The+Colorado+Sun+Newsletters&utm_campaign=209a9d04b6-SUNDAY_20220206_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_61e0bd63dc-209a9d04b6-66871270&mc_cid=209a9d04b6&mc_eid=55339b8ed8

01/25/2022

Water woes in northwest Colorado:

The 'over-appropriated' declaration will change how permits for groundwater wells are approved but won't affect how the water that flows on the surface of the river and its tributaries is managed and used

07/23/2021

The federal government intends to provide immediate assistance to water users impacted by the West’s historic drought and develop longer-term strategies to respond to climate change, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland pledged Thursday during a visit to Denver.

The federal government intends to provide immediate assistance to water users impacted by the West’s historic drought and develop longer-term strategies to respond to climate change, U.S. Sec…

07/22/2021

https://coloradosun.com/2021/07/20/colorado-river-fishing-restrictions-lifted/?utm_source=The+Colorado+Sun+Newsletters&utm_campaign=02000a20d5-OUTSIDER_2021-07-15_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_61e0bd63dc-02000a20d5-66871270&mc_cid=02000a20d5&mc_eid=55339b8ed8

Colorado lifted some fishing restrictions along a stretch of the Colorado River on Tuesday, but biologists warn that historically low water flows caused by a drought in the U.S. West, high water temperatures and wildfire sediment that all starve trout of oxygen could force future bans.

Wildfire smoke has help deflect solar radiation and kept the river relatively cool. But aquatic biologists warn hot weather, low water levels and sediment in the river could combine to starve trout of oxygen and future bans.

07/20/2021

Just an incredible story about the lower Arkansas River Valley. Great job by The Denver Post and RJ Sangosti.

For nearly a century, leaders in southeastern Colorado have worked on plans to bring clean drinking water to the area through the proposed Arkansas Valley Conduit, but progress on the pipeline proj…

07/07/2021

Western governors, plauged with wildfire problems, have asked the federal government for help on land and fire issues.

Western governors told top federal officials that it was time to dramatically rework programs to help states recover from wildfires, thin overgrown, drought-ravaged forests, and protect mountain water systems. Governors representing 17 states gathered last week for the virtual Western Governors’

07/07/2021

Denver Water is voluntarily reducing diversions from several Grand County creeks and coordinating with partners to adjust operations, where possible, to help boost water levels in some of the more troubled water areas.

The struggles of the river’s largest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, have been well documented over the last decade as drought has ravaged the West.