Water year 2026 · Oct 2025 – Jul 2026

Watch the drought arrive

Press play, or drag the slider. Each step rescales every reservoir by its basin's monthly percent of the 1991–2020 median, so you can watch the Rio Grande's October surplus drain and the Gunnison sink through spring. A reconstruction of the shape of the year — for a single reservoir's real daily record, open it on the map.

storage timelineJul 2026