Two months after the seven states of the Colorado River Basin failed to reach consensus on managing the waterway, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation issued a set of proposed alternatives. The alternatives ...

A draft environmental impact statement by the Bureau of Reclamation outlines post-2026 Colorado River dam operations, ...

Earlier this month, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the federal agency that oversees water in the West, released five options for a framework on managing the river’s biggest reservoirs, Lake Mead in ...

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

I don’t think anything in here was new to (states’ negotiators), so this doesn’t necessarily change the calculus. … This ...

If you took a look at a map of Rocky Mountain snow right now you would see a lot of red. The mountains that feed the Colorado River with snowmelt are strikingly dry, with many ranges holding less than ...

The states along the Colorado River are proving the truth of the famous adage often attributed to Mark Twain: "Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over." At the end of the year, the current ...

Water from the Colorado River and its tributaries irrigates farms, sprinkles lawns and quenches the thirst of millions across Utah and the greater Southwest. While only 27% of the state’s water comes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lake Mead, impounded by Hoover Dam, contains far less water than it used to. Kevin Carter/Getty Images The Colorado River is in ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The clock is ticking down to a federal deadline Tuesday for California and six other Western states to reach the broad ...

As I’ve followed the long-running negotiations over the Colorado River the last couple of years, very little progress has been made in transforming the century-old system of managing the river’s ...

Water from the Colorado River flows through the East Highline Canal on its way to farms in the Imperial Valley on June 20, 2023. (File photo by Alex Hager/KUNC) The Colorado River basin has lost huge ...