What happens when one of the nation's largest rivers dries up? Photojournalist Pete McBride tells us about the consequences of a prolonged drought in the Colorado River, which provides drinking ...

The result is that the federal Colorado Basin River Forecast Center is now predicting that April through July flows into Powell will be only 76% of normal. That's down from 81% at the beginning of ...

January's Colorado River basin snowpack is about normal, but without a snowy late winter, Arizona will likely see sustained water cuts on the river.

Snowpack in the upper Colorado ... turning into river runoff. Dry soils, human water use and sublimation (a process where snow and water are lost to the atmosphere) can all soak up snowmelt ...