From the birth of the agency that took on Southern Nevada’s water crisis to the installation of a third straw at Lake Mead, a ...

Farms pay less than cities for river water, but both groups pay low wholesale prices to access a water supply that's slowly disappearing.

Future water management cannot be organized how it is presently or as it was in the past, said Celene Hawkins, Durango resident and The Nature Conservancy’s new Colorado River Program director. The ...

The Colorado River is starting to swell with spring runoff, but just a few months ago, Avi Stopper clocked a gap in the Western United States' most important water supply. Stopper was driving back to ...

Seven states in the Colorado River Basin are days away from a Nov. 11 deadline to hash out a rough idea of how the water supply for 40 million people will be managed starting in fall 2026. And they’re ...

Of all the challenges facing the Colorado River, there’s at least one that all stakeholders are working on collaboratively, not competitively — salinity. Since 1974, the seven Colorado River basin ...

States agree that climate change is making the Colorado River less reliable, but at a water conference, they did not meet to talk.

On the headwaters of the Colorado River, water managers fear they are on the brink of a system failure as drought and climate change rewrite the old rules. Winter snowpack is no longer a reliable ...

The seven states that share the Colorado River are floating a new concept for how water could be shared in the future, marking forward progress after a long standoff between the Upper Basin and Lower ...

When Colorado Parks and Wildlife personnel tested a small pond that feeds the irrigation system at the Mesa County ...