National water conservation groups filed a legal petition Tuesday asking the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to stop downstream ...

Hydrologists say that hotter temperatures have been drying out soils and vegetation in the west, leading to less water ...

The authors of a new memo say that states need to take shared water cutbacks to manage the Colorado River going forward.

Scientists have known that dust settling on snowpack speeds up snowmelt, but new research shows that nearly all of the Upper ...

Hydrologists say that hotter temperatures have been drying out soils and vegetation in the west, leading to less water ...

What a difference a month makes. The forecast for how much water will flow this year into Lake Powell, a bellwether reservoir ...

If water levels drop too low, hydropower generation could affect five million people across seven states. But the conditions ...

Hickenlooper added that Colorado River management decisions should ... Hickenlooper has supported conservation efforts in the Upper Basin (Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming), including ...

New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming), including the System Conservation Pilot Program, which paid water users to cut back in 2023 ...

The current rules for dividing the river's shrinking water supply among the seven states that rely on it expire in 2026.

The U.S. Department of Interior said Wednesday it extended more than a dozen contracts with water-rights holders in ...