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Durango sustainability manager discusses water use with panel

Marty Pool said city’s water comes predominantly from Florida River, supplemented by Animas River

DATE: Sep 14, 2024 | CATEGORY: Local News

For better water forecasts, scientists say we should pay more attention to spring

85% of Colorado River starts as snow in the high-altitude mountains

DATE: Sep 6, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Animas High School shuts down because of another water main break Wednesday

Aging pipes cause more problems for Durango charter school

DATE: Sep 4, 2024 | CATEGORY: Local News

Animas Surgical Hospital cancels appointments because of water main break

Hospital administration hopes to reopen on Wednesday

DATE: Aug 26, 2024 | CATEGORY: Local News

Animas High School closes for the day because of water main issue

Classes will also be canceled on Friday

DATE: Aug 22, 2024 | CATEGORY: Local News

Bayfield High grad now leading Fort Lewis College’s Four Corners Water Center

Program focuses on developing ‘collaborative solutions’ to overcome existing and future water challenges

DATE: Aug 15, 2024 | CATEGORY: Local News

Nextdoor post about Dove Ranch subdivision causes stir in Bayfield

Post claims neighborhood being excluded from town’s stormwater plan, which Mayor Tom Au vehemently denies

DATE: Aug 7, 2024 | CATEGORY: Local News

Cortez City Council hears community’s complaints and revises water rates

Council ends tiered water rate structure – for now – and adopts a fixed rate for single-family homes

DATE: Jul 24, 2024 | CATEGORY: Local News

At least 32 have died in Colorado waters this summer. State loaning life jackets, upping citations to slow pace

The season’s tally of water fatalities include 17 deaths in reservoirs and 15 in moving water. CPW has issued 430 tickets for PFD violations so far this year

DATE: Jul 13, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Photos: Getting in the flow

There were heavy rains Friday in the mountains up the water in the Animas River

DATE: Jun 29, 2024 | CATEGORY: Local News

CPW emphasizes importance of life jackets amid high rate of drowning deaths

‘When drownings do happen, you see the loved ones left behind,’ Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesman says

DATE: Jun 17, 2024 | CATEGORY: Outdoors

Unsafe levels of E. coli found in Seine River less than 2 months before Paris Olympics

PARIS (AP) – Water in the Seine River had unsafe elevated levels of E. coli less than two months before swimming competitions are scheduled to take place in it during the Paris Olympics, acc...

DATE: Jun 15, 2024 | CATEGORY: AP Sports