Zebra mussels are similar to another invasive mollusk, the quagga mussel, which has not been detected in Colorado’s lakes and ...

It’s a staggering fact, especially after our region has experienced a multi-year drought. Nearly every major river basin in South Central Texas has experienced flooding since July 4, 2025.

The Colorado River basin has lost a Lake Mead’s worth of water in the last 20 years — and scientists say we’re passing a "critical point" where pumping groundwater will become too expensive.

As the seven Colorado River Basin states haggle over the future of water allocations, authors of a new report on groundwater argue that equal attention should be paid to the water beneath our feet ...

For context, U.S. Colorado River basin states are entitled to 15 million acre-feet, and the average American household consumes about 1 acre-foot of water annually.

The river basin, which includes seven Western states, has lost 27.8 million acre-feet of groundwater since 2003. That’s roughly the volume of Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir.

Several environmental groups are teaming up this weekend to clean trash out of Lake Austin and the Colorado River, as part of a statewide initiative to keep Texas waterways clean and litter-free.

Listen Now 11min 13sec Ross D. Franklin/AP The Colorado River in the upper River Basin is pictured in Lees Ferry, Ariz., on May 29, 2021.

The study found that groundwater losses in the Colorado River basin were 2.4 times greater than the amount of water lost from the surfaces of Lake Powell, Lake Mead, and a number of other smaller ...