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

Arizona has taken cuts to its Colorado River water since 2022. But a set of agreements among Arizona’s cities, farms and tribes that share the burden of those shortages expires in 2026.

As Arizona continues talks with six other states on the Colorado River over how to share future shortages, in-state water users are starting to talk about how they will deal with supply cuts.

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 ...

The simple solution has never been rewriting the interstate compact, as California has always wanted to do, but simply to distribute the water by the existing percentages — based on the river’s actual ...