Federal officials said Tuesday they will ease water cuts for Western states reliant on the Colorado River in 2024, thanks to a slightly improved outlook, but long-term challenges remain.
Seven Western states are starting to plot a future for how much water they’ll draw from the dwindling Colorado River in a ...
Tribal leaders from the Colorado River Basin laid out three key ideas they want in any new river operating plan, including a permanent seat the table.
The Colorado River is in crisis — one of the worst in recorded history. We take more water out of the river than flows in, ...
This article is published through the Colorado River Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative supported by the Janet ...
In 2021, the U.S. declared a water shortage on the river for the first time in history, calling on the seven states to reach a deal to voluntarily cut 2 million to 4 million acre-feet from their ...
Seven western states are now at an impasse over how to keep the Colorado River from collapsing due to climate change and overuse. On Wednesday, the states of California, Arizona and Nevada ...
The seven states that rely on water from the shrinking Colorado River are unlikely to agree to voluntarily make deep reductions in their water use, negotiators say, which would force the federal ...
Federal officials have discovered damage inside Glen Canyon Dam that could force limits on how much Colorado River water is released at low reservoir levels, raising risks the Southwest could face ...
A recent memo published by the US Bureau of Reclamation raises concerns about the future of water management in the Colorado River basin. Glen Canyon Dam, substation (left) and bridge (in front of ...
Years of overuse by farms and cities, and the effects of drought worsened by climate change has meant much less water flows today through the Colorado River than in previous decades. Despite ...
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