This state park near Taos offers a fantastic natural retreat with stunning palisades, camping options, hiking trails, and ...

The source of salinity depends on where you are in the Colorado River Basin and when you’re looking. Up-basin in Colorado River tributaries in Eagle County — where naturally occurring salinity is very ...

State negotiators are meeting more often. The Colorado River is a critical source of water for Arizona, providing 36% of the state’s water, according to the Arizona Department of Water Resources.

Colorado River states still have no unified long-term management plan and ‘are just about out of time,’ experts warn Current operation guidelines for the Colorado River, which provides water ...

The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act allowed President Biden to designate $4 billion for Colorado River programs, including big sums for programs that pay farmers, cities and Native American tribes to ...

The amount of snowmelt expected to reach the Colorado River's Lake Powell this spring is far below the median of the last two decades, despite near-normal snowpack levels.

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 ...

If a Colorado city wants to bring kayakers and their money to town, they can throw some big rocks in the river and apply for a recreational in-channel diversion, or RICD. Basically, if the river is ...

If Arizona’s Colorado River water allocation was cut to zero, “we could burn through the available groundwater in 50 years,” Famiglietti said. “We’re talking about decades. That’s scary.

Up to 40 million people in seven U.S. states -- as well as parts of northern Mexico -- rely on the Colorado River for their water needs, according to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.More than half ...

Arizona officials present details of a new proposal to share future shortages on the Colorado River. The "supply-driven" solution would base allocations on the river's actual flows, not on storage ...

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 ...