The Upper Guadalupe River Authority had a $3 million reserve, but cut taxes rather than replacing an outdated flood alert ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 1,450-mile Colorado River is divided among seven states under a 1922 compact, but the river system’s annual operations are guided by a series of term-limited deals among the states, as well ...

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 ...