Heather Sackett is the managing editor at Aspen Journalism and the editor and reporter on the Water Desk.
Heather Sackett is the managing editor at Aspen Journalism and the editor and reporter on the Water Desk. She has also reported for The Denver Post and the Telluride Daily Planet. Heather has a master’s degree from CU’s Center for Environmental Journalism and her reporting has been recognized by the Colorado Press Association.
In the wake of one of the hottest, driest winters on record, communities in the Roaring Fork Valley are bracing for summer with more-severe water restrictions, fines for the worst offenders and a water conservation outreach campaign.
Western Slope water managers are scrambling to soften the blow from the effects of one of the worst snow-drought years on record. The Glenwood Springs-based Colorado River Water Conservation District board approved a series of...
Facing an abysmal snowpack and spring runoff, the state’s largest Front Range water provider has enacted an agreement that lets it take more water from the Western Slope for a limited time. On March 18,...
An Aspen activist is hoping to gain support for a paradigm shift in the way people view their local waterway by granting rights to the Roaring Fork River.
The Colorado River crisis is no longer part of some hypothetical future — it’s here.
A plan to cover water shortages on the Crystal River lists four reservoirs as sources for the water, two of which would be newly constructed.
After winning approval from the state water board in November, the plan to secure an important water right for the Western Slope now faces a new hurdle: water court.
Pitkin County is making a historic deal to buy water currently used on the Front Range and put it back into the Roaring Fork.