Colorado is part of nine river compacts including ones that cover the Arkansas and the Rio Grande. Colorado is a headwaters state, which means that some major rivers start here and flow out over ...

Beginning in the 1880s, humans built progressively larger diversions, dams, and reservoirs in the Rio Grande Basin, leaving ...

The Rio Grande Compact — signed in 1938 by Colorado, New Mexico and Texas — sealed the river’s fate. The compact ensured that farmers in all three states would get their share of water.

The Rio Grande Compact—signed in 1938 between Colorado, New Mexico and Texas—sealed the river’s fate. The compact ensured that farmers in all three states would get their share of water.

The snowpack in the Upper Rio Grande River Basin in the San Luis Valley is currently at 63 percent of normal, while the Arkansas River Basin stands at 72 percent.

Sounding the River merges sound recordings with ethnographic interviews and writing to consider the Rio Grande as a more-than-human actor involved in societal conflicts and projects of place-making. I ...

Through the 1944 treaty — which focused on the “utilization of waters of the Colorado and Tijuana rivers and of the Rio Grande” — the U.S. pledged to convey Colorado River water to Mexico ...