The Colorado River’s Lower Basin states published a proposal Wednesday for the watershed’s long-term operations, just hours after their Upper Basin peers unveiled a rival offer — and as talks… ...

One in 17 people. An often-repeated fact about the Colorado River is that it provides water to 40 million people in the Southwest. But perhaps an even more salient statistic is that 1 in 17 people ...

Water managers in the Upper Basin — Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and Utah — have long pointed to the Lower Basin not living within the means of what the river provides as a driving force behind ...

Lower Basin water managers say all seven states that use the Colorado River must share cuts broadly under the most critical system conditions, while Upper Basin officials maintain they do not have to ...

Combined with previous cuts, to which lower-basin states already have agreed, those two proposals would aim to conserve a total of just over 2 million acre-feet from the Colorado River, more than ...

Water managers in the four Upper Colorado River Basin states say they have a plan to help stabilize the overtaxed river, but in a letter to the Bureau of Reclamation say any work to balance the ...

States in the upper and lower halves of the Colorado River basin have unveiled conflicting visions on what path the Bureau of Reclamation should follow when crafting a new framework governing ...

Lower basin water managers say all seven states that use the Colorado River must share cuts broadly under the most critical system conditions, while upper basin officials maintain they do not have ...

Severe drought gripped the West in 2015, leading to lower water levels on the Colorado River and two of its biggest reservoirs, Lake Powell and Lake Mead. At the time Lake Powell was at 45% of ...

Staff and board members from the Glenwood Springs-based Colorado River Water Conservation District, along with other water managers from across western Colorado, this month visited the lower basin ...

Staff and board members from the Glenwood Springs-based Colorado River Water Conservation District, along with other water managers from across western Colorado, this month visited the lower basin ...