As the Colorado River shrinks due to drought and climate change, the negotiators must decide who will take less water — and they need to do so in the next few months.

An official from Utah, during a Colorado River conference at CU Boulder last month, framed the consideration as a “divorce” ...

The Colorado River basin has lost a Lake Mead’s worth of water in the last 20 years — and scientists say we’re passing a "critical point" where pumping groundwater will become too expensive.

The Southwest and Rocky Mountain states are reviewing a plan that could split Colorado River water based on actual flows, not ...

As Colorado River stakeholders scramble to negotiate the basin’s long-term operational guidelines, the Trump administration ...

Commissioners from the seven states in the Colorado River Basin must create a plan to divvy up the river's water after the current guidelines expire at the end of 2026.

The new year is opening to an uncertain and contentious future along the Colorado River. Faced with the onset of climate change, decreasing river flow and half-empty reservoirs, the seven river ...

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 to 40 ...

The Colorado River basin has lost a Lake Mead’s worth of water in the last 20 years — and scientists say we’re passing a "critical point" where pumping groundwater will become too expensive.

Commissioners from the seven states in the Colorado River Basin must create a plan to divvy up the river's water after the current guidelines expire at the end of 2026.