The seven states that share the Colorado River are floating a new concept for how water could be shared in the future, ...

The Colorado River’s Lower Basin states published a proposal Wednesday for the watershed’s long-term operations, just hours after their Upper Basin peers unveiled a rival offer — and as talks… ...

New Mexico taps 4 million acre-feet of water yearly, half from various rivers and half from the ground – with about 400,000-acre feet of surface water coming from the basin, said Rolf Schmidt ...

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

By comparison, the entire upper basin (Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Wyoming) uses between 3.5 and 4.5 million acre-feet per year from the Colorado River. An acre-foot is the amount of water needed ...

In its trip, the Colorado River water, mainly provided by snowmelt from the Rocky Mountains, travels through the upper basin states comprising Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico.

Combined with previous cuts, to which lower-basin states already have agreed, those two proposals would aim to conserve a total of just over 2 million acre-feet from the Colorado River, more than ...

Colorado River Lower Basin states are calling for Colorado to use less river water in times of shortage, according to a proposal submitted on Wednesday. Under the Lower Basin states’ (California ...

The Colorado River Basin is divided into two regions: Lower Basin states are Nevada, Arizona and California; Upper Basin states are Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.

Western states that rely on the Colorado River are in a heated deadlock over how to manage the troubled river, and are doubling down on their own regional plans, despite growing pressure from the ...

Dwindling Colorado River Basin key to New Mexico agriculture By SCOTT WYLAND , Santa Fe New Mexican Updated Sep 18, 2022 9:15 a.m. Workers harvest and bag green chile on Glen Duggins' farm in ...

One in 17 people. An often-repeated fact about the Colorado River is that it provides water to 40 million people in the Southwest. But perhaps an even more salient statistic is that 1 in 17 people ...