As Colorado River states race to finish a deal, water users face a resource altered by drought and climate change.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation should start planning to modify the Glen Canyon Dam, which plugs the Colorado to form Lake ...

The Upper Guadalupe River Authority had a $3 million reserve, but cut taxes rather than replacing an outdated flood alert ...

At the Upper Colorado River Commission meeting on Thursday, Becky Mitchell — the group’s chair and Colorado’s lead negotiator — likewise confirmed that “the basin states have been ...

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 ...

States in the upper and lower Colorado River basin have spent the last few months negotiating how water cuts should be divvied up after current agreements expire in 2026, but they are still at ...

So the Upper Basin states of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico might want to take Interior to court. “No one could possibly come up with a set of rules that pleases everyone,” Castle said.

Negotiators from seven Colorado River basin states in recent weeks have said they're discussing a plan that would base the amount of water released from Lake Mead and Lake Powell on the river's flows.

Since the turn of the century, the Colorado River basin has been locked in the grip of a mega-drought. Exacerbated by climate change and unrelenting water demands, the nation’s two largest ...

As Colorado River stakeholders scramble to negotiate the basin’s long-term operational guidelines, the Trump administration is expressing support for a state-level consensus agreement — while ...