This winter and spring are shaping up to be bad times for the Colorado River, with a federal forecast predicting flows into Lake Powell at barely three-fourths of normal. While snowpack has been ...

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. During the ...

All this suggests another subpar runoff in the San Juan and Animas rivers. They contribute to Lake Powell, one of two big water bank accounts on the Colorado River. When I visited the reservoir in May ...

An “essential” Colorado River water conservation program faces dual threats as the new Trump administration attempts to freeze its funding and a lapse in authorization creates delays that may ...

They contribute to Lake Powell, one of two big water bank accounts on the Colorado River. When I visited the reservoir in May 2022, water levels were dropping rapidly. The manager of Glen Canyon ...

Latest estimates place the Upper Colorado River Basin snowpack at just 83 percent of the historic median for this time of ...

The Colorado River is drying up. We’re doing everything we can to sustain the river and its communities. As snowpacks shrink, temperatures rise, and less water flows into the Colorado River, we’re ...

Lower-than-normal runoff In the Colorado River basin, a similar north-south pattern is playing out. Water-supply forecasts in the Upper Colorado River Basin — above Lake Powell — are more ...

Some of the oldest water rights on the Colorado River may finally belong to water users on the Western Slope if the Trump administration doesn’t stall the funding first. The U.S. Bureau of ...

House Joint Resolution 9, sponsored by Rep. Casey Snider, R-Paradise, calls for Utah to use its full allocation of Colorado River water in the upper and lower basins. "We're just wanting to make ...

The Colorado River supplies water for 40 million people in the West. The basin stretches from Wyoming and Colorado all the way to the Gulf of California in Mexico, winding through several states that ...