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The Colorado River waters extend through seven states and two nations, including 277 miles through the Grand Canyon. Here's where it starts and ends.

Lower Colorado River Basin states plan to collectively – and temporarily – cut their water use by 3 million acre-feet by the end of 2026.

Farmers relying on the Colorado River are raising the alarm as diminishing river flows threaten food supplies and could lead to increased U.S. grocery prices in 2025.

The clock is ticking on the Colorado River. The seven states that use its water are nearing a 2026 deadline to come up with ...

The Colorado River system stretches across seven states in the Southwest and Mexico, and a complicated set of decades-old laws determines who gets water from the river, and how much.

Months of bitter negotiations between seven states that rely on the Colorado River’s vanishing water have collapsed along a clear fault line over the past week: California versus everyone else.

Three states have struck a historic deal to cut millions of gallons of Colorado River water usage over the next four years. The cuts would be compensated with more than $1 billion in federal funds.

The seven Colorado River basin states are still negotiating with the Bureau of Reclamation on how they will conserve 2 million to 4 million acre-feet of water — or up to roughly one-third.