Welcome back to The Runoff, our monthly newsletter featuring insight and news from our Water Desk you won’t read anywhere else, plus additional context and updates on our most recent reporting. Once again we are taking the place of the normal edition of The Roundup, which will return next week. Thanks for going deeper with […]
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The Roundup | Now is the time to understand more so we may fear less
A wrap-up of our conversation with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, Aspen Journalism, and ACES in Aspen, CO.
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The Roundup | Opinions differ on timeline as Crystal River Wild & Scenic efforts move ahead
Crystal River Wild & Scenic designation efforts, Aspen and Roaring Fork Valley COVID-19 data, and Aspen airport precipitation compared to average.
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The Roundup | Data mining reveals a drop in the bucket
Data mining reveals a drop in the bucket: what caused Lake Powell to shrink overnight, plus an innovative water savings strategy
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The Roundup | Environmental groups try to stop that train
Utah oil railway has ignited Colorado concerns, plus updates to the state water plan and COVID-19 data.
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The Roundup | A moment of reckoning for water in the West
Record-low water storage levels at lakes Mead and Powell after more than two decades of drought conditions are among the chief indicators that the basin is “facing the growing reality that water supplies for agriculture, fisheries, ecosystems, industry and cities are no longer stable due to climate change.”
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The Roundup | Add invasive fish to problems associated with Lake Powell
As Powell drops, invasive fish will enter lower Colorado River Basin, threatening progress.
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The Runoff | River District in D.C., streamflows stressed and a possible double peak
Insight and news from our Water Desk you won’t read anywhere else, plus additional context and updates on our most recent reporting.
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The Roundup | Pipe the ditch, save the water
All that’s fresh from our water and data desks, plus a summer event announcement with Thomas L. Friedman
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The Roundup | The ups and downs of river flows 
Did Colorado rivers just peak? Streamflows down after cooler temperatures, snowpack below average; winter occupancy and Lake Powell levels on the rise.