The Colorado River makes life possible in many Western cities and supports agriculture that sustains people throughout the country. Most of the river's water begins as snowmelt from the mountainous ...

Declining snowfall is changing the seasonal patterns of streamflow throughout the Northern hemisphere boosting chances of water shortages in the summer, scientists have found. Declining snowfall is ...

Seasonal limits on lawn watering are intended to cut demand quickly when conditions worsen.

The small mountain streams that feed many of the West's rivers may face a much drier future. A new study led by NAU researchers found that groundwater-fed streamflow, known as base flow, has been ...

Our recent work on monitoring streamflow in semi-arid streams has helped extend our understanding of how streamflow is generated in these regions. Our study found that high rainfall intensities are a ...

The 2023 Colorado Water Plan mentions urban land use and urban growth patterns as high-impact drivers that influence Colorado’s water future. Colorado’s population is expected to increase from 5.77 ...

Altering streamflow can endanger the ecosystems that rely on it, but researchers have lacked data on how human infrastructure has impacted streamflow in the U.S. Now, a study has mapped streamflow ...

Chinese scientists have recently proposed a novel artificial intelligence (AI)-based model to address streamflow and flood forecasting at a global scale for both gauged and ungauged catchments which ...