The states along the Colorado River are proving the truth of the famous adage often attributed to Mark Twain: "Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over." At the end of the year, the current ...

Concerningly low amounts of water are flowing from the Rocky Mountain snowpack this spring, a summer of drought looms across swaths of the West, and the negotiators tasked with devising a sustainable ...

Every winter, snow piles up across the mountains of Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, building the frozen reservoir that feeds the Colorado River and supplies water to roughly 40 million people in seven ...

The Colorado River stretches more than 1,400 miles from its headwaters in the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming and Colorado to the Gulf of California in Mexico. Its basin spans seven U.S. states — Wyoming, ...

Of all the challenges facing the Colorado River, there’s at least one that all stakeholders are working on collaboratively, not competitively — salinity. Since 1974, the seven Colorado River basin ...

The Colorado River basin has lost huge volumes of groundwater over the past two decades according to a new report from researchers at Arizona State University. Researchers used data from NASA ...

The Colorado River will remain in shortage through 2026, federal officials announced, a decision that was expected after an especially poor winter runoff season. Arizona suffers the largest cuts under ...