THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. (KESQ) – New research is showing that groundwater from the Colorado River Basin, or CRB, is depleting more quickly than most first thought. Researchers from Arizona State ...

Science Colorado River Basin Aquifers Are Declining Even More Steeply Than the River, New Research Shows Overuse and climate change are rapidly depleting groundwater throughout the region, but ...

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.

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.

The Amite River Basin Commission recently outlined 13 major projects in its first master plan. Of the costs estimated, the plan could reach more than $3.8 billion. Bayou Manchac improvements: Cost ...

Between 1992 and 2020, the Tarim River Basin experienced substantial land-use changes, with cropland, grassland, and woodland expanding while barren land declined by about 20,597 km². The ...

Guest column: The 2016 flood showed the renewed activity in the Amite River basin. Now, the new commission appointed to address concerns is acting, argues commission President John Clark.

Negotiations over the Columbia River basin could affect the environment in Canada and electrical generation and flood control in the United States. Negotiations of a 60-year-old treaty between ...

The seven states that use water from the Colorado River — Arizona, California and Nevada comprise the Lower Basin — have just over one month left to agree on how the nation’s two largest ...

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 ...