colorado snowpack
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Tapped: Golden tightens water rules as Clear Creek snowpack falters
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Editor’s note: The Denver metro region sits at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines the interconnected systems that determine how the region secures, stores, and conserves its water while navigating the competing demands of fast‑growing urban communities and the increasingly unpredictable mountain snowpack that…
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Tapped: With growth tapped out, Highlands Ranch turns to cutting demand
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Editor’s Note: The Denver metro region sits at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines the interconnected systems that determine how the region secures, stores, and conserves its water while navigating the competing demands of fast‑growing urban communities and the increasingly unpredictable mountain snowpack that…
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It rained in Albuquerque Wednesday night
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Albuquerque got rain Wednesday night. The National Weather Service recorded 0.03 inches. That’s welcome news to a community that hasn’t had rain in 96 days. It isn’t a record; The Albuquerque Journal said it’s the fifth-longest. But it’s a harbinger of a very dry water year, according to John Fleck, a professor at the…

