Tag: Water Availability Task Force
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Summer monsoons improve Colorado’s drought conditions, represent ‘drops in the bucket’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The best summer for precipitation since 2014 produced rare optimism among one of the state’s water watchers, but it is tempered with concerns about a third straight La Niña fall, which is likely to bring hotter and drier conditions. And that isn’t good for winter snowmelt,…
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Monsoon moisture takes a little out of the drought, water watchers say
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The early arrival of summer monsoons in late June has been a welcome sight for a parched state, but the rains have not been enough to put an end to the drought. Colorado water watchers from federal and state agencies and local water providers, known…
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Drought plan for 40 Colorado counties activated by Gov. Polis
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Gov. Jared Polis on Tuesday activated the state’s drought plan for 40 of Colorado’s 64 counties, in response to a warmer-than-average spring and far less precipitation than normal. It comes just one year after a wetter-than-average 2019 when Colorado, for the first time since tracking…