Is wasteful water use causing shortages? The Natural Resources Defense Council is urging the U.S. government to enforce a ...

Top water negotiators declined to speak at an upcoming conference amid closed-door meetings about the future of the water ...

The authors of a new memo say that states need to take shared water cutbacks to manage the Colorado River going forward.

The current rules for dividing the river's shrinking water supply among the seven states that rely on it expire in 2026.

National water conservation groups filed a legal petition Tuesday asking the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to stop downstream ...

The mountains that feed the Colorado River with snowmelt are strikingly dry, with many ranges holding less than 50% of their ...

National water conservation groups filed a legal petition Tuesday asking the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to stop downstream Colorado River users from wasting water. The petition requests that the ...

The forecast for spring-summer runoff in the Colorado River has taken a nosedive due to sharply decreased snowpack and total precipitation in April compared to earlier months. The federal forecast ...

What a difference a month makes. The forecast for how much water will flow this year into Lake Powell, a bellwether reservoir on the Colorado River, was already meager. Now, after a dry April, it’s ...

The Colorado River makes up about half of San Diego County’s imported water supply. Now, California and the six other states that use the Colorado River are deadlocked about how to share it in ...