US state negotiators are battling over how to manage dwindling water resources in the Colorado River Basin, a lifeline for ...

The Utah State Engineer's Office is now floating worst-case scenarios that include the potential for deep cuts to people's ...

HITE, Utah — The Colorado River is the lifeline of the western U.S. and now it’s drying up. That’s just the beginning of the problems facing the river and those who rely on it. Along the river, people ...

Federal water managers decide shortage levels each year in August, based on projected water levels at Lake Mead and Lake Powell for the start of the following year. Photo by Jeniffer Solis | Nevada ...

Drought-stricken Lake Mead on the Colorado River in August 2022. (File photo by Christopher Clark / U.S. Bureau of Reclamation) After one of the Colorado River’s driest years in decades, Lake Mead and ...

The seven states in the River Basin, including Colorado, have until Nov. 11 to sketch out a high-level agreement for how to ...

An extraordinary drought in the West is drying up the Colorado River and draining the nation's largest reservoirs -- Lake Mead and Lake Powell. And amid the overuse of the river and the aridification ...

After one of the Colorado River’s driest years in decades, Lake Mead and Lake Powell — the largest reservoirs in the country — could see alarming declines in the coming years, the U.S. Bureau of ...

Cut Colorado River water use now, water researchers and other experts urge in a new report, to avoid putting the river system in a very difficult to potentially catastrophic position in a year. The ...

After one of the Colorado River’s driest years in decades, Lake Mead and Lake Powell — the largest reservoirs in the country — could see alarming declines in the coming years, the U.S. Bureau of ...