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Metro Denver’s wastewater treatment system is spreading sewage biosolids laced with toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” at its farm in eastern Arapahoe County and on private farms that buy the material as fertilizer, according to test records obtained by the Colorado Sun. The likely presence of the ubiquitous and dangerous chemicals on Colorado farmland, placed there… >> Read More

Some farmers in our state have seen reduced water for their crops, while other farmers have already run dry. Like most mornings, Nancy Caywood loads up in her car and drives around her 250-acre farm, Caywood Farms. The dust kicks up behind the back wheels and in a few days, she says her farm will… >> Read More

A water main break in West Texas could leave the 165,000 residents in and around Odessa with little or no water for 48 hours, officials said Tuesday, just as a heat wave grips the city. There’s an “imminent threat” of “severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property” looming in the famed oil boom… >> Read More

To some, it defies common sense. California is once again in the middle of a punishing drought with state leaders telling people to take shorter showers and do fewer loads of laundry to conserve water. Yet at the same time, many of the same elected officials, pledging to solve the housing crisis, are pushing for… >> Read More

As a worsening drought forces millions of Californians to face mandatory water restrictions, one corner of Southern California has largely shielded itself from supply-related woes: San Diego County. For Western water planners, the path it took to get there serves either as a blueprint or a cautionary tale. Over the past three decades, San Diego… >> Read More