At its core, the framework authorizes and coordinates development of new supply through large-scale desalination, advanced ...

As Lake Powell and Lake Mead near critical elevations, federal planners face narrowing operational options that could reshape ...

Tribes across the West have worked with states to protect the Colorado River and conserve enough water to raise elevations in ...

State water officials debated a controversial proposal to use two powerful Colorado River water rights to help the environment, weighing competing interests from Front Range and Western Slope water ...

Future water management cannot be organized how it is presently or as it was in the past, said Celene Hawkins, Durango resident and The Nature Conservancy’s new Colorado River Program director. The ...

As temperatures rise and water supplies drop, public policy could bolster municipal water provisions under pressure. But one ...

The clock is ticking on short-term interstate deals on water use. A long-term operating plan must be in place by Oct. 1, 2026. The Trump administration will give state officials hashing out the future ...

Next door, Colorado’s lead negotiator, Becky Mitchell, had framed her own message for the Southwestern states. Ranchers and other water users in the Upper Basin already suffer cuts when mountain ...

Western Slope elected officials, water managers, engineers, and conservationists met in Grand Junction on Friday, Oct. 3, all focused on one thing: the uncertain future of the Colorado River. “Water ...

FILE: Large swaths of shoreline on Lake Powell that were under water just a few years ago can be seen from the air in this 2022 photo. With less than three weeks to go before a crucial deadline in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Chuck Cullom addressed an audience at a June water conference in Colorado, the snows high in the Rocky Mountains behind him ...