If the seven states dependent on the Colorado River don't craft a new operating agreement, the federal government could end ...

Snowpack across Colorado ranges from close to normal levels near the Colorado River headwaters ... 31% of normal — the lowest in the state. A map from the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

How states dependent on the Colorado River are struggling to strike a long-term agreement Years of overuse combined with rising temperatures and drought have meant less water flows in the Colorado ...

The seven states that rely on water from the shrinking Colorado River are unlikely to agree to voluntarily make deep reductions in their water use, negotiators say, which would force the federal ...

Federal funding freezes and staffing cuts are setting off alarms about the future of the Colorado River, a critical artery that supplies water to some 40 million people in 30 tribes and seven ...

“It looks like hydrology is calling us to action,” Colorado’s river commissioner, Becky Mitchell, told colleagues. While the Lower Basin states of Arizona, California and Nevada have conceded they ...