The lower basin states of California, Arizona and Nevada are calling for mandatory water cuts in the upper basin states of ...

Relying on desalination, the San Diego County Water Authority will consider transferring water to cities in Arizona and ...

The Interior Department must force seven bickering states to agree on drastic water cuts — after the driest winter in decades ...

Basin states have missed the latest deadline to come up with a plan to save the Colorado River, imperiling water for 40 million people.

Drought-stricken Lake Mead on the Colorado River in August 2022. (File photo by Christopher Clark / U.S. Bureau of Reclamation) After one of the Colorado River’s driest years in decades, Lake Mead and ...

The seven states that use water from the Colorado River have proposed competing plans for how the river should be managed in the future. They’re split into two factions, with the Upper Basin states of ...

Drought-stricken Lake Mead on the Colorado River in August 2022. (File photo by Christopher Clark/U.S. Bureau of Reclamation) This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their ...

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 ...

The 30 tribal nations in the watershed — the river’s most senior water users — were deliberately excluded from the Colorado River Compact negotiations, a blatant attack on tribal sovereignty. In doing ...

With chronic water shortages afflicting the Colorado River, discussions about how to cut usage have increasingly focused on a thirsty crop that consumes an especially large share of the river’s water: ...