Connecting The Drops

COVID-19 and Water Safety

Over the past three months, we’ve learned about how a pandemic can impact all aspects of our lives, including the critical systems that society depends on to sustain life…like clean water. In this edition of Connecting the Drops, KGNU’s Sam […]

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River Surfing Grows in Popularity in Colorado

2019 was a bumper year for recreation on Colorado Rivers.  A bumper snow pack heading into summer saw record levels of snow melt raising water levels around the state. As a result, people flocked to rivers and streams to paddle, […]

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Connecting the Drops: The Fork Not Taken

For most of the 19th-century dam construction was the dominant solution to water issues in the United States. But in 1990 the Environmental Protection Agency vetoed the construction of the Two Forks dam, solidifying a decline in major dam construction […]

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Connecting The Drops: What Not To Flush

“There really are downstream consequences from putting things down your drain that … ultimately impact water quality in the (South Platte) river.”   Wastewater and municipal sewer systems around the country are dealing with a growing problem – people are […]

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