At its core, the framework authorizes and coordinates development of new supply through large-scale desalination, advanced ...

As Lake Powell and Lake Mead near critical elevations, federal planners face narrowing operational options that could reshape ...

Tribes across the West have worked with states to protect the Colorado River and conserve enough water to raise elevations in ...

Future water management cannot be organized how it is presently or as it was in the past, said Celene Hawkins, Durango resident and The Nature Conservancy’s new Colorado River Program director. The ...

State water officials debated a controversial proposal to use two powerful Colorado River water rights to help the environment, weighing competing interests from Front Range and Western Slope water ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — A critical deadline hits today for Colorado River water negotiations, as seven basin states scramble to reach an agreement for Post-2026 Operational Guidelines for the resource that ...

Western Slope elected officials, water managers, engineers, and conservationists met in Grand Junction on Friday, Oct. 3, all focused on one thing: the uncertain future of the Colorado River. “Water ...

The clock is ticking on short-term interstate deals on water use. A long-term operating plan must be in place by Oct. 1, 2026. The Trump administration will give state officials hashing out the future ...

As the economic, ecological and cultural centerpiece of the American Southwest, the increasingly dire condition of the Colorado River remains a central focus of GWC activities. Continuing a recent ...

As Chuck Cullom addressed an audience at a June water conference in Colorado, the snows high in the Rocky Mountains behind him were warming into water, which would soak into dry soils, evaporate into ...

The Interior Department document outlines a range of alternatives for managing drought on the Colorado River.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Negotiators tasked with hammering out the future of the shrinking Colorado River — and the 40 million people who rely on it — are once again careening toward ...