Shannon Mullane

3 weeks ago | durangoherald.com | Shannon Mullane

While Colorado River users fret over shrinking water supplies aboveground, the basin has lost even more water below the surface. The losses in states like Colorado are lower than those downstream. The Colorado River Basin’s hidden, belowground reservoir – which spans parts of Colorado and six other states – has lost about 13 trillion gallons of water, and it’s shrinking faster than it has in the past, according to researchers at Arizona State University.

3 weeks ago | coloradosun.com | Shannon Mullane

The Colorado River Basin’s hidden, below-ground reservoir — which spans parts of Colorado and six other states — has lost about 13 trillion gallons of water, and it’s shrinking faster than it has in the past, according to researchers at Arizona State University. Groundwater, stored in the cracks in rock and spaces between soil and sand below our feet, is the oft-overlooked stepchild of the basin, which provides water to 40 million people around the West.

3 weeks ago | coloradosun.com | John Ingold |Shannon Mullane |Michael Booth

Hey there, Colorado, and welcome to another edition of The Temperature. I’ve been thinking a bit lately about sliding doors — specifically the sliding doors at the entrance to the Children’s Hospital Colorado emergency department in Aurora. About two weeks ago, they slid open when my wife and I carried our infant inside for a check on his oxygen levels as he dealt with that made it hard for him to breathe and put a cannula up his nose. He was ultimately fine then and is fine-r now.

4 weeks ago | the-journal.com | Shannon Mullane

Friday, May 30, 2025 6:49 PM Updated Friday, May. 30, 2025 6:50 PM Lorelei Cloud tapped as board’s first-ever Indigenous chairperson Southern Ute tribal member Lorelei Cloud speaks about tribal water issues during the Southwestern Water Conservation District's annual seminar March 27, 2024, on the Southern Ute Reservation.

4 weeks ago | the-journal.com | Shannon Mullane

Thursday, May 29, 2025 5:15 PM Updated Thursday, May. 29, 2025 6:58 PM State health department: Private well users near Pine Winds Mobile Home Park should use bottled or filtered water Water runs through Pine Winds Mobile Home Park near Hesperus on Monday. The water flooded a leach field, part of the community’s wastewater system.