Justin Sullivan/Getty Images This is the shore of Lake Powell in Page ... Erin Schaff/The New York Times So far the Colorado River states have missed a deadline for consensus on cuts sought ...

An “essential” Colorado River water conservation program faces dual threats as the new Trump administration attempts to freeze its funding and a lapse in authorization creates delays that may ...

Some of the oldest water rights on the Colorado River may finally belong to water users on the Western Slope if the Trump administration doesn’t stall the funding first. The U.S. Bureau of ...

The Biden administration is swimming against the current to get seven Western states to agree to divvy up the Colorado River’s water in a way that would protect the river basin and the West’s ...

In 1928, the Metropolitan Water District was formed for the express purpose of building the Colorado River Aqueduct and transporting the water to the city. March 12 of that same year, the St.

Snowpack across Colorado ranges from close to normal levels near the Colorado River headwaters, outside Grand Lake, to troublingly low along the state’s southern border. The pattern of snow ...

Nevada will face cuts in how much water it can use from the Colorado River for the fourth year in a row, triggered by new Bureau of Reclamation projections for Lake Mead, the country’s biggest ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A resolution introduced in the Utah State Legislature could have an impact on negotiations between states, tribes and Mexico over the future of the Colorado River. House Joint ...

The Colorado River and many of its tributaries have been ... tubing and fishing along its shore. A decade ago, it was hard to imagine this scene — and the thriving recreation economy that ...