The Colorado River is in crisis — one of the worst in recorded history. We take more water out of the river than flows in, ...
This article is published through the Colorado River Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative supported by the Janet ...
Last month, the seven U.S. states that use Colorado River water released two divergent plans for how that water should be managed after 2026 when the current agreement expires. Their proposals ...
Tribal leaders from the Colorado River Basin laid out three key ideas they want in any new river operating plan, including a permanent seat the table.
Newly discovered damage in Glen Canyon Dam would require releasing less water at low reservoir levels — a problem that ...
Water and environment experts aim to make sure endangered fish, Grand Canyon ecosystems and more aren’t left out of the ...
Seven western states are now at an impasse over how to keep the Colorado River from collapsing due to climate change and overuse. On Wednesday, the states of California, Arizona and Nevada ...
The Colorado River loses 19.3 million acre feet of water per year to cities, farms and evaporation — roughly the amount of ...
More than half of the Colorado River's total annual water flow is used on agriculture, a new study has found. The report, published in Communications Earth & Environment, was undertaken to find ...
The Colorado River has been overused for decades, but no one has known exactly how the water was used — until a team of researchers compiled the most complete accounting of the river’s water ...
Years of overuse by farms and cities, and the effects of drought worsened by climate change has meant much less water flows today through the Colorado River than in previous decades. Despite ...
In response to your Monday editorial on the Colorado River: No, Las Vegas is not to blame for the crashing elevations at Lakes Mead and Lake Powell. But pretending that the growth machine can live ...