The Lower Basin states of California, Arizona and Nevada are asking for a fresh look at proposals for sharing the shrinking ...

In a blistering letter, water officials in Arizona, California and Nevada recently took the federal government to task for failing to plan adequate measures to protect crucial ...

The Rocky Mountain states say they don't have water to give. The Southwest says it can't save the Colorado River on its own.

The deadline for the U.S. Department of Interior to determine the post-2026 future of Lake Powell and Lake Mead — and the entire Colorado River basin — is now six months away. As precarious ...

Why it matters: Glen Canyon, which holds Lake Powell, is now Utah's most-visited site operated by the National Park Service, ...

The federal agency charged with managing the Colorado River failed to do its job properly when it excluded a viable option ...

The basin’s snowpack typically peaks in early April before melting into the Colorado River and its tributaries over the spring and summer, eventually flowing into Lake Powell and Lake Mead.

Two years ago, headlines blared warnings of a Colorado River in crisis, with Lake Mead’s plummeting water levels threatening ...

Farmers in the arid Southwest depend on Colorado River water delivered downstream from Hoover Dam. Storage reservoirs of Lake Powell and Lake Mead have dwindled to historic lows and may never ...