A historically bad snowpack and record high temps, and the post-2026 management of the river – and how they are intersecting.
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Recent editions of the new monthly newsletter from Aspen Journalism’s Water Desk.
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The Runoff | The biggest water stories of 2025
Welcome to The Runoff, where Aspen Journalism’s Water Desk provides insider news and water-related updates you won’t read anywhere else under The Briefing and additional context and updates on the most recent reporting from our water desk under The Recap. In 2025, the Water Desk brought readers authoritative reporting on water quality issues in the […]
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The Runoff | The future of the Shoshone water right comes into focus
Welcome to The Runoff, where Aspen Journalism’s Water Desk provides insider news and water-related updates you won’t read anywhere else under The Briefing and additional context and updates on the most recent reporting from our water desk under The Recap. Thanks for going deeper with us and forfor supporting our nonprofit, in-depth, investigative reporting. – […]
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The Runoff | Dismal flows, funding thaws & big decisions ahead
Welcome to The Runoff, where Aspen Journalism’s Water Desk provides insider news and water-related updates you won’t read anywhere else under The Briefing and additional context and updates on the most recent reporting from our water desk under The Recap. Thanks for going deeper with us and for supporting our nonprofit, in-depth, investigative reporting. – […]
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The Roundup | A date circled on the calendar
Local journalist Kaya Williams had June 9 circled on her calendar, as the date that the pending sale of the 3,739-acre St Benedict’s Monastery property in Old Snowmass was scheduled to close. But as she reported this week in collaboration with Josie Taris of Aspen Daily News, the deal, which we first reported this spring, […]
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The Runoff | Coming to terms with the river we have
Welcome back to The Runoff, where Aspen Journalism’s Water Desk provides insider news and water-related updates you won’t read anywhere else, with additional context and updates on our most recent reporting. Thanks for going deeper with us and for supporting our nonprofit, in-depth, investigative reporting. – Heather SackettWater Desk Editor and ReporterAspen Journalism Three new CWCB reps […]
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The Runoff | Upper Basin MOU lays groundwork for saved-water accounting
Welcome back to The Runoff, where Aspen Journalism’s Water Desk provides insider news and water-related updates you won’t read anywhere else, with additional context and updates on our most recent reporting. Thanks for going deeper with us and for supporting our nonprofit, in-depth, investigative reporting. – Heather SackettWater Desk Editor and ReporterAspen Journalism MOU lays […]
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The Runoff | Reclamation’s cool water releases sound fishy to these scientists
Welcome to The Runoff, where Aspen Journalism’s Water Desk provides insider news and water-related updates you won’t read anywhere else, with additional context and updates on our most recent reporting. Thanks for going deeper with us and for supporting our nonprofit, in-depth, investigative reporting. – Heather SackettWater Desk Editor and Reporter ‘We’re reengineering the river […]
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The Runoff | Using less of the Colorado River takes a willing farmer and $45 million in federal funds
A special edition of The Runoff, the Aspen Journalism Water Desk newsletter. On Thursday we published a collaboration with KUNC’s Colorado River reporter Alex Hager about a controversial water conservation program in the Upper Basin.
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The Runoff | Study brings new accounting of Colorado River water uses
Welcome to the Runoff, where Aspen Journalism’s Water Desk provides insider news and water-related updates you won’t read anywhere else under The Briefing and additional context and updates on the most recent reporting from our water desk under The Recap. Thanks for going deeper with us and for supporting our nonprofit, in-depth, investigative reporting. –Heather […]