Study Warns of Less Colorado River Water
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By Tony Davis, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 22--Global warming likely will mean less water for the already overallocated Colorado River in coming years, the nation's most influential research organization concluded Wednesday.
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By The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Mar. 11--MORE PEOPLE are starting to take seriously the problems of water quality in the Arkansas River.   The Colorado Legislature recently passed a bill addressing water quality in cases where water is transferred from one use to another, and Gov.
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By Bob Shaw, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Mar. 7--3M Co. has a message for Washington and Dakota counties: Stop worrying about your water.
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Jun. 13--When it comes to natural resources, whether the issue is endangered species, air, water or federal lands, the unfailing response of the Bush administration has been to seek fewer protections.
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By PATRICIA FARRELL AIDEM  SANTA CLARITA -- Local water suppliers are urging conservation as summer approaches in this driest year on record -- and as the region's main water supply is reduced to a trickle because of a threatened fish 300 miles away.
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Declining populations of common birds could be the harbinger of bigger environmental problems, a study by the National Audubon Society concludes.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 10--An emergency lease to state agencies by the Pueblo Board of Water Works will keep minimum flows in the Arkansas River through Pueblo and avoid a repeat of conditions that threatened fish in the winter of 2005.
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By Sara Perkins, The Monitor, McAllen, Texas  Feb. 24--RIO GRANDE CITY -- Almost $3 million in grants and loans should  go a long way toward improving water service for 500 households north of the  city -- but not all the way.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Mar. 3--Arkansas River flows through Pueblo returned to higher levels this week because runoff above Lake Pueblo has been higher than anticipated, while flows on rivers lower in the basin are less than expected.
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By DENNIS BUECKERT  OTTAWA (CP) - Canada and the United States are launching a $17.5-million study to determine why water levels in the upper Great Lakes have declined to near-record lows.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON - The harmful effects of global warming on daily life are already showing up, and within a couple of decades hundreds of millions of people won't have enough water, top scientists will say next month at a meeting in Belgium.
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RUSSELL SPRINGS, Ky. - Engineers may have to further lower a lake if some repairs to a leaky dam don't work, which could cause a crunch at lakeside power plants and threaten drinking water supplies, officials said Wednesday.
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By PAM ZUBECK THE GAZETTE  For decades, Colorado Springs has prided itself on pristine mountain snowmelt as its water source.   Now, the federal government wants to study recycling sewage as an alternative to Colorado Springs Utilities' proposed $1 billion water pipeline project.
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Ranching, mining, energy exploration and other activities that raise dust in the West are helping diminish the snowpack that supplies much of the region's water, a new study says.
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Plans to directly divert flows from the Rio Grande near Santa Fe shouldn't harm the endangered silvery minnow or cause other serious harm to the environment, says an analysis released this week by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
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By Margie Wood, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Dec. 16--Pueblo faces threefold problems from Fountain Creek, all of them caused or aggravated by rapid growth in Colorado Springs, Jane Rawlings told members of the Pachyderms Republican club on Friday.
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A new paper from climate scientists finds that dropping water supplies in the West are primarily due to manmade global warming through the increase of atmospheric greenhouse gases.