Shanna Lewis/KRCC News Hundreds of water managers and water users attended the 30th Annual Arkansas River Basin Water Forum in Pueblo, Colo., on March 5, 2025. Heather Dutton leads the San Luis ...

The Colorado River Basin’s groundwater supplies are dwindling, thanks to a combination of both natural events and human pumping activities, a new study has found. The critical Western system has ...

As the Colorado River's reservoirs have declined, even larger amounts of groundwater have been drained from aquifers. Using satellite data, scientists have estimated the vast water losses.

Upper Basin officials maintain they already suffer annual shortages of about 1.3 million acre-feet because they are squeezed by climate change and shouldn’t have to share additional cuts because their ...

Volunteers are sought to help clean along the banks of the Chenango River and at state parks May 3 as part of the Love Our New York Lands Stewardship Days. Gov. Kathy Hochul announced in an April ...

The amount of groundwater that has been pumped out of the Colorado River Basin since 2003 is enough to fill Lake Mead, researchers report in a study published earlier this week.

Negotiations with the Lower Basin states, which ground to a halt at the end of 2024, have resumed, and Upper Basin commissioners said they are hopeful that they will reach a consensus. Failure to do ...