A dry January across Colorado and the rest of the Rocky Mountain West has created a dichotomy of water haves and have-nots.

The Colorado River Basin is divided into upper and lower portions. It provides water to the Colorado River, a water source that serves 40 million people over seven states in the southwestern ...

There are four key physical characteristics that have an impact on the Colorado River basin.

Since 1974, the seven Colorado River basin states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — have coordinated efforts to implement salinity control in the waterway ...

Learn about physical characteristics of the Colorado River basin, including climate, rock type, soils, vegetation and river flow. Need for water management Water management is needed on the ...

Snowpack in the upper Colorado River basin is slightly less than normal for this time of year, meaning Arizona could see sustained water cuts through 2026. Though trends could change through the ...

In the Colorado River Basin, declining water supply over the last century has increased pressure on water users and created significant challenges for meeting multiple competing demands. As the ...

The pilot program has paid water users — mostly farmers and ranchers — in the four states in the Colorado River’s Upper Basin to voluntarily use less river water than their water rights allow.

indicating that a unified front on how to update expiring operating guidelines is not in the basin’s near future. At the second day of the Colorado River Water Users Association conference ...