Massive Green River water diversion project proposal denied in Supreme Court decision

In January 2018, Water Horse Resources, LLC proposed a pipeline project that would send 55,000 acre-feet of water every year ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

Utah high court backs rejection of Colorado water pipeline plan

Utah’s high court has backed that state engineer’s decision to reject a proposal to pipe water from the Green River to ...
FOX 13 Utah

Utah Supreme Court rejects Colorado River water pipeline project

The Utah Supreme Court has rejected a project that proposes to take water from the Colorado River system in Utah, pump it ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

‘Riding the rails’ meant something different to early Fruita resident

In his first job in western Colorado, 21-year-old John Kiefer went to work as a salesman for the Fruita Mercantile Co., traveling between Fruita, Colorado, and Green River, Utah, by bicycle. The only ...
The Denver Post

Colorado River debate puts thirsty alfalfa in the crosshairs. Could alternatives to the “queen of forage” save water?

FRUITA — The scrubby green plants that fill a checkerboard of 24-by-36-foot research plots on the arid plains of Mesa County could be part of a major shift in agriculture in the drought-plagued ...
KSL

Coalition warns Colorado River could drop to critical lows, calls for 9 urgent reforms

Editor's note: This article is published through the Colorado River Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative supported by the Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water, and Air at Utah ...
Summit County

Water managers give updates on Dillon and Green Mountain reservoirs, including what rafting season could look like on Summit County’s Blue River

Both the Dillon Reservoir and the Green Mountain Reservoir are expected to reach capacity this summer, Colorado Division of Water Resources division engineer James Heath said at the State of the River ...