The deadline for the U.S. Department of Interior to determine the post-2026 future of Lake Powell and Lake Mead — and the ...

Water managers are preparing for another potentially lackluster runoff this year in the Colorado River Basin. At a meeting ...

Lead negotiators from the Colorado River’s Upper Basin states expressed a dual sense of uncertainty and urgency on Tuesday, ...

The Rocky Mountain states say they don't have water to give. The Southwest says it can't save the Colorado River on its own.

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

With snowpack levels hovering around 84% of normal, projections for Lake Mead released on Friday show the reservoir dropping ...

This spring, the Colorado River District will be hitting 11 communities in western Colorado to discuss water issues facing the basin for its annual “State of the River” meetings. The State of the ...

Of all the challenges facing the Colorado River, there’s at least one that all stakeholders are working on collaboratively, not competitively — salinity. Since 1974, the seven Colorado River basin ...

Congress ended a program that offered $8.3 million, mostly to ranchers, to conserve water in 2023. Wyoming wants it renewed.

After years of studying and experimenting with pilot programs, the future of Colorado River management will almost certainly ...

The 2009 U.S. Geological Survey report indicated that half of the salt in the upper Colorado River comes from Mancos ... especially farmers, in the lower basin.” While there is a fairly good ...