Using water more efficiently in agriculture has many benefits. But bolstering the Colorado River may not be one of them.

Arizona is hoping for consensus but preparing for a possible legal battle as it negotiates a new multistate agreement over ...

President Donald Trump’s intrusion into California’s long-running conflict over water management has drawn massive media and ...

The Interior Department will consider five options as it works to develop a new framework to govern Colorado River water cuts ...

After years of studying and experimenting with pilot programs, the future of Colorado River management will almost certainly ...

The Colorado River relies heavily on snowpack in the Upper Basin states — Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — that melts ...

The result is that the federal Colorado Basin River Forecast Center is now predicting that April through July flows into ...

Amid mounting challenges to Colorado’s water supply, lawmakers are seeking to upgrade the decades-old method of tracking the ...

“It’s also calcium, magnesium, potassium, sulfate, bicarbonate — all these other compounds that dissolve into the water contribute to salinity,” Hoblitzell said. The Colorado River in its ...

All this suggests another subpar runoff in the San Juan and Animas rivers. They contribute to Lake Powell, one of two big water bank accounts on the Colorado River. When I visited the reservoir in May ...