US state negotiators are battling over how to manage dwindling water resources in the Colorado River Basin, a lifeline for ...
Editor's note: This article is published through the Colorado River Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative supported by the Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water, and Air at Utah ...
The Colorado River could reach dangerously low levels as soon as next year under dry conditions, and environmental groups say ...
Amid severe drought and ongoing, tense negotiations over the future of the Colorado River, federal officials are predicting that Lake Mead will see its lowest water levels ever within the next two ...
With less than three weeks to go before a crucial deadline in the negotiations over Colorado River water rights, a state official told the Colorado Springs Utilities Board of Directors on Wednesday to ...
Colorado River water flows in the Central Arizona Project aqueduct beside a neighborhood in Phoenix. (Kelvin Kuo / Los Angeles Times) The Colorado River’s massive reservoirs are now so depleted that ...
HITE, Utah — The Colorado River is the lifeline of the western U.S. and now it’s drying up. That’s just the beginning of the problems facing the river and those who rely on it. Along the river, people ...
Reservoirs are 31% full as talks intensify and power risks grow. Lake Mead and Lake Powell are about 31% full, already triggering cutbacks for Arizona and Nevada. Under a dire scenario, Lake Powell ...
Dismal runoff led to a precipitous drop in water levels at Lake Powell this summer, forcing the National Park Service to close boat ramps and move docks into deeper waters. If this coming winter’s ...
From KPBS, you’re listening to San Diego News Now.Stay with me for more of the local news you need. The warning comes just three years after the Colorado River was threatened by an intense drought.
The Utah Supreme Court has rejected a project that proposes to take water from the Colorado River system in Utah, pump it ...