After a slow start to the snow season in Colorado's Rocky Mountains the jet stream finally brought a favorable storm track to the state.

Their water claim pushed the upper Edisto River basin past its mathematical capacity — the first time that’s happened to one of the state’s major river basins.

A new report years in development urges the federal government to fund a major water restoration project on the Ohio River Basin, a sprawling network of waterways stretching into 14 states.

DENVER — A multibillion-dollar reservoir and pipeline project may one day pull more than 50,000 acre-feet of water per year from the South Platte River before it reaches Nebraska.

It's the basin of the mighty Mekong River, a culturally diverse, environmentally rich but economically impoverished region that is poised for vast transformation.

It also urged to save water resources in major river basins including the Ganges, Indus and Brahmaputra. The ministry filed an affidavit in response to the NGT notice.

Every major river basin in the state also recorded above-median snowpack, reducing the risk of large, uncontrollable wildfires and boosting the state’s water supplies.