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 ...

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

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

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

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 Colorado River Basin’s water delivery reliability has continued to degrade since deciding these 2007 operational guidelines due to the imbalance of growing demand and dwindling supply. The ...

This research applied and extended the concepts of Many Objective Robust Decision Making (MORDM) to develop a long-term planning framework in the Colorado River Basin (CRB) that identifies and ...

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 ...

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.

PHOENIX — The Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) and its partners received a $24.5 million award to be used for restoration efforts within the Colorado River Basin, it announced on Thursday.

The theme of the week may have centered on piecing together ways to manage the Colorado River after 2026, but Nevada and its six neighboring states in the basin walked away with a fractured puzzle ...