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.
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 ...
Seven Western states are starting to plot a future for how much water they’ll draw from the dwindling Colorado River in a ...
This article is published through the Colorado River Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative supported by the Janet ...
Federal officials said Tuesday they will ease water cuts for Western states reliant on the Colorado River in 2024, thanks to a slightly improved outlook, but long-term challenges remain.
The Colorado River is in crisis — one of the worst in recorded history. We take more water out of the river than flows in, ...
In 2021, the U.S. declared a water shortage on the river for the first time in history, calling on the seven states to reach a deal to voluntarily cut 2 million to 4 million acre-feet from their ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cattle raised for beef and dairy products are taking by far the largest share of Colorado River’s dwindling water supply, a new study found. Whether it’s in the form of hamburger, steak, veal ...