A photo shows the Colorado River basin. Newsweek explains exactly what a drainage basin is. USGS. Elizabeth Koebele, associate professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Reno ...

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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.

After months of stalemate, glimmers of hope have emerged for consensus on a new plan to manage the shrinking Colorado River.

Millions of dollars in federal funding has been released to continue restoring lands and streams in the fire-scarred Upper Colorado River Basin watershed in and around Grand Lake and Rocky Mountain ...

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.

Upper Basin officials maintain they already suffer annual shortages of about 1.3 million acre-feet because they are squeezed by climate change and shouldn’t have to share additional cuts because their ...

The Colorado River Basin’s groundwater supplies are dwindling, thanks to a combination of both natural events and human pumping activities, a new study has found. The critical Western system has ...

They estimated that annual groundwater losses in the Colorado River Basin have averaged more than 1.2 million acre-feet — about four times larger than the amount of water the Las Vegas area is ...