The deadline for the U.S. Department of Interior to determine the post-2026 future of Lake Powell and Lake Mead — and the entire Colorado River basin — is now six months away. As precarious

Lead negotiators from the Colorado River’s Upper Basin states expressed a dual sense of uncertainty and urgency on Tuesday, as a deadline to determine the fate of the entire system looms near. “If you are in the Upper Basin states or probably anywhere across the West,

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. Can they make a deal?

This article corrects some typographical errors.  Three of Colorado’s top water experts hammered home the idea that Colorado’s water situation id precarious, at best, and almost always on the

State officials from the Upper Basin said they need to have something done by this summer, even as existing agreements are in place until 2026.