Irrigation district managers and water law professors padded through the ballrooms and in the mirror-walled hallways of the ...

The report notes that the vast challenges are straining the relationships among the seven basin states that include Utah, ...

That’s why water managers are eager to attend this year’s annual policy gathering in Las Vegas. Federal and state officials, ...

Colorado River water users in California presented their own framework for how to share the river’s dwindling water supply, ...

Lake Mead may be facing historic shortages, but officials from the Colorado River state that uses the most water are ...

Farms pay less than cities for river water, but both groups pay low wholesale prices to access a water supply that's slowly ...

The Colorado River is starting to swell with spring runoff, but just a few months ago, Avi Stopper clocked a gap in the Western United States' most important water supply. Stopper was driving back to ...

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 ...

Future water management cannot be organized how it is presently or as it was in the past, said Celene Hawkins, Durango resident and The Nature Conservancy’s new Colorado River Program director. The ...

On the headwaters of the Colorado River, water managers fear they are on the brink of a system failure as drought and climate change rewrite the old rules. Winter snowpack is no longer a reliable ...

The seven states that share the Colorado River are floating a new concept for how water could be shared in the future, marking forward progress after a long standoff between the Upper Basin and Lower ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Negotiators tasked with hammering out the future of the shrinking Colorado River — and the 40 million people who rely on it — are once again careening toward ...