The proposals range from taking "no action" to a scenario that might result in water cuts to the lower basin states of ...

Earlier this year, several environmental groups sent a petition to the federal government with a seemingly simple message: Ensure that water from the imperiled Colorado River is not wasted and only ...

On the headwaters of the Colorado River, water managers fear they are on the brink of a system failure as drought and climate change rewrite the old rules. Winter snowpack is no longer a reliable ...

Drought-stricken Lake Mead on the Colorado River in August 2022. (File photo by Christopher Clark / U.S. Bureau of Reclamation) After one of the Colorado River’s driest years in decades, Lake Mead and ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A group of experts says Western states urgently need to cut water use to avert a deepening crisis on the Colorado ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The federal government provides water to some large agricultural districts at little or no charge. In a new study, ...

In an effort to head off concerns about the state’s role in a major Western Slope water deal, a Western Slope water district has offered up a compromise proposal to Front Range water providers. To ...

Federal officials have mandated that states dependent on the Colorado River reach a water-sharing agreement or face a federally imposed solution. Negotiators are developing a framework for a deal ...

Water from the Colorado River and its tributaries irrigates farms, sprinkles lawns and quenches the thirst of millions across Utah and the greater Southwest. While only 27% of the state’s water comes ...

Colorado River water is being given away or sold at rock-bottom wholesale prices to water districts serving farms and cities across the Southwest, creating a major disincentive to conservation as the ...