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

Seventy percent of Colorado Springs’s water supply currently comes from the Colorado River. But with the basin’s reliability in question, the city is now looking to alternative sources like ...

The Colorado River basin has experienced three D4 droughts in the last 20 years, including the current one. 2002, 2018 and 2021 are the most intense dry periods on record for the basin. “The droughts ...

The study comes as water managers from Colorado River basin states are working on new management plans ahead of 2026, when current guidelines are set to expire. Negotiations are tense, and the ...

“There are extremely dry conditions across the Lower Colorado River Basin this winter,” Moser said. Forecasters now expect runoff into Lake Powell to be 67% of normal — down from the 81% ...

The Colorado River Basin looks to be headed for a third straight dry year, according to the April report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Colorado Basin River Forecast Center ...

Left out to dry: Wildlife threatened by Colorado River Basin water crisis Drought, climate warming and development is causing a crisis for people and wildlife in the Western U.S.

Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, which make up the Colorado River's upper basin, launched the System Conservation Pilot Program late last year, offering money to farmers and others willing ...

The city is one of the largest in the Colorado River basin, but its share of the river is relatively small; when officials allocated the Colorado’s water to different states in 1922, no one ...

The Colorado River Basin looks to be headed for a third straight dry year, according to the April report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Colorado Basin River Forecast Center ...