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 ...

The Colorado River Basin is divided into upper and lower portions. It provides water to the Colorado River, a water source that serves 40 million people over seven states in the southwestern ...

which are the main storage facilities in the lower Colorado River Basin. At this time in the early fall of 2022, both reservoirs have receded to levels which are close to requiring shutdown of the ...

Using the 1999 concentration levels, economic studies have identified the cost of damages due to increased salinity levels in the lower Colorado River basin at approximately $330 million dollars per ...

A dry January across Colorado and the rest of the Rocky Mountain West has created a dichotomy of water haves and have-nots.

This work is motivated by and could assist the upcoming renegotiation of the Colorado River Interim Guidelines for Lower Basin Shortages and Coordinated Operations for Lake Powell and Lake Mead.

Of all the challenges facing the Colorado ... in the lower basin.” While there is a fairly good understanding of how much salinity is entering the basin and river each year, the understanding ...

it’s not the Lower Basin. It’s hydrology,” said Brandon Gebhart, Wyoming’s state engineer and Colorado River negotiator. “All of the rhetoric and other distractions going on right now ...

Those states get their water primarily from stream flow, rather than from giant reservoirs like in the lower basin states. Erin Schaff/The New York Times So far the Colorado River states have ...

The theme of the week may have centered on piecing together ways to manage the Colorado River after 2026 ... the Upper Basin and the Lower Basin,” Gimbel joked. Southern Nevada, a region ...