The Colorado River is drying up due to a combination of chronic overuse of water resources and a historic drought. The dry period has lasted more than two decades, spurred by a warming climate ...

Drought-ravaged Colorado River gets relief from snow. But long-term water crisis remains. View of the Colorado River continuing past Hoover Dam, on the border between Nevada and Arizona, on April 3.

Energy & Environment . Drought forces first water cuts on the Colorado River. They’re just the beginning. A two-decade-long megadrought along the river is set to push the Western seven states ...

The 2007 Colorado River Interim Guidelines for Lower Basin Shortages and the Coordinated Operations for Lake Powell and Lake Mead and the 2019 Drought Contingency Plan called for reductions in use ...

The Colorado River has about 19% less volume than in the year 2000, Eberle said. By 2050, that number is expected to drop to 30% less than in 2000 if temperatures continue to rise, he added. The ...

Facing water shortages in the Colorado River Basin in the early 200s, the 2007 Colorado River Interim Guidelines and later the 2019 Drought Contingency Plans were created to mitigate water use ...

The Colorado River Basin encompasses seven U.S. states and supplies water to 40 million people. Over the past two decades, the basin has experienced record-setting heat and some of the driest ...

The drought has dramatically worsened over the past year, not only in the headwaters of the Colorado River but across the West. A year ago, about 4% of the West was in a severe drought.

California's is a severe, but relatively short-term, drought. But the Colorado River basin — which provides critical water supplies for seven states including California — is the victim of a ...

Colorado River water users face cuts as historic drought takes its toll 01:04. Forty million people depend on the mighty Colorado River for water, power, produce and recreation.

The drought and diversion-challenged Colorado River serving 40 million people in the West and irrigating 5.5 million acres of farmland will undergo an operational facelift.

Drought is not the only barrier to access for the Navajo Nation or other tribes in the Colorado River Basin. All tribes have legal reserved rights to water, however these rights are not quantified.