US state negotiators are battling over how to manage dwindling water resources in the Colorado River Basin, a lifeline for ...

The states must agree on guidelines to prevent federal or court-mandated imposition. A federal or court-mandated solution ...

We cannot negotiate with people who say what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.”— <a href=" target="_blank">John ...

Not as much water flows into the river as people are entitled to take out of it. A new idea might change that, but ...

Colorado River water flows in the Central Arizona Project aqueduct beside a neighborhood in Phoenix. (Kelvin Kuo / Los Angeles Times) The Colorado River’s massive reservoirs are now so depleted that ...

Bill Fales runs a commercial cow-calf operation with his wife Marj Perry on their Cold Mountain Ranch. They have partnered with the Colorado Water Trust on a Diversion Timing Agreement in an effort to ...

The Colorado River could reach dangerously low levels as soon as next year under dry conditions, and environmental groups say ...

Dismal runoff led to a precipitous drop in water levels at Lake Powell this summer, forcing the National Park Service to close boat ramps and move docks into deeper waters. If this coming winter’s ...

LOMA, Colo. — Water is a driving force in the American West, and today it’s at risk more than ever. Not just from overuse, not just from megadrought, but from minuscule invaders that pose a nearly ...

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo – On a quiet summer evening, the North St. Vrain Creek is flowing gently through a canyon in Lyons, Colorado. At LaVern M. Johnson Park, things are tranquil: Tubers are floating ...

Colorado officials urge the U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss Nebraska's complaint over the South Platte River Compact, asserting ...

The Colorado River’s massive reservoirs are now so depleted that another dry year could send them plunging to dangerously low levels, a group of prominent scholars warns in a new analysis. The ...