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

As the seven Colorado River Basin states haggle over the future of water allocations, authors of a new report on groundwater ...

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

New details are emerging of what's being negotiated between the seven states who rely on the Colorado River — an "amicable ...

As Colorado River stakeholders scramble to negotiate the basin’s long-term operational guidelines, the Trump administration ...

A market-based approach to managing water in the Colorado River basin could provide more reliable supplies for farmers, communities, and industry amid ongoing drought and excess demand. The right ...

Colorado River states appear to be coalescing around the early makings of a new plan to share water in a way that accounts ...

States that use Colorado River water need to agree on new rules for sharing it by 2026. If they don't, they will likely end ...

It’s the upper basin versus the lower basin. The upper basin states are Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. The lower basin is California, Nevada and Arizona.

States that use Colorado River water need to agree on new rules for sharing it by 2026. If they don't, they will likely end ...

That approaches 65% of the total river water use last year in the entire Lower Colorado Basin, although it’s less than the 70% to 80% that experts say agriculture uses of the entire river’s ...

The debate often centered on whether upper basin states (Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming) should take any administered water cuts, as lower basin states like Arizona have already taken cuts.