The countdown is on to secure the fate of one of the most important resources to Western agriculture: the Colorado River.

The Colorado River system is the lifeblood of the southwest, delivering water to 40 million people across the United States ...

Water recycling can lessen the burden on the Colorado River Basin, but just 26% of treated municipal wastewater is reused ...

Colorado Sen. John Hickenlooper stood right beside the flowing Colorado River as he responded to concerns about its future from water conservation leaders on the Western Slope. The senator’s Tuesday ...

The seven states on the Colorado River are spending millions of dollars to accurately measure how much water flows downstream and how much is taken out along the way. Quantifying the river's flow is ...

The Trump administration has denied a special request from Mexico for the delivery of Colorado River water to the city of Tijuana — marking the first such denial in 81 years.

according to a report released this week by the Colorado Basin River Forecast Center. But only about 4.5 million acre-feet of water are expected to flow into Lake Powell as snow melts across the ...

The Colorado River’s reservoirs contain their third lowest amount of water for this time of year since the current drought period started in 2000, a sign that “the Colorado River crisis ...

First established in 1922 as the Colorado River Compact, the guidelines split water management and allocation among seven states. Now, those states—Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada ...