The Water Information Program

With several feet of snow stacked on the mountains, the short-term forecast for Colorado's water supply looks good.

The basic provisions of a historic agreement by seven states to share the Colorado River are simple, but a series of other agreements will be needed to make it work.

Measures dealing with water issues are expected to trickle into the Colorado Legislature during this year's session.

Photo courtesty of Journal/Sam Green

Water users across Colorado's Western Slope can rest a little easier.

Water officials are delicately working out ways to handle a "call" from downstream - the possibility that Arizona, Nevada or California will demand more water from Colorado and other up

Water experts from across the Western Slope gathered to talk about their nightmare scenario: a legal demand from California, Arizona and Nevada to send more water down the rivers.

Uncertainty about what could happen if predictions of global warming prove accurate or the Southwest suffers another drought have become the root of concern of two Western Colorado water districts.

In a move designed to protect the natural environment of the Slate River, the state of Colorado has issued a water call on some junior water users in the Crested Butte area.