The Colorado River is pictured near Moab on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch) Western states that rely on the Colorado River are in a heated deadlock over how to ...

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 ...

A big bend on the Colorado River. (Photo: Alexander Stephens/Bureau of Reclamation) States in the upper and lower Colorado River basin have spent the last few months negotiating how water cuts should ...

A dry January across Colorado and the rest of the Rocky Mountain West has created a dichotomy of water haves and have-nots across the region. Snowpack across Colorado ranges from close to normal ...

During a tour of the Western Slope last week, U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., said he was frustrated with the pace of negotiations that could determine how the Colorado River is shared in the ...

LAS VEGAS — At the largest annual gathering of the basin’s water managers on Thursday, speakers invoked “Dr. Strangelove,” “The Hunger Games” and “Alice in Wonderland” to convey the dire, darkly ...

As the seven Colorado River Basin states haggle over the future of water allocations, authors of a new report on groundwater argue that equal attention should be paid to the water beneath our feet.

“They’re asking me to give up the future we were promised and to make promises that I can’t keep,” a Wyoming official said. Disagreements over whether states in the Colorado River Basin should agree ...

Water managers are preparing for another potentially lackluster runoff this year in the Colorado River Basin. At a meeting Tuesday, water managers from the Upper Colorado River Commission agreed to ...

Negotiators in both the Lower and Upper Basin states all acknowledged they have three options to decide how states will share the river’s waning water supply going forward: litigation, legislation or ...