A man was able to walk completely across the Colorado River in Laughlin due to extremely low water levels, documenting the ...

Western states that rely on the Colorado River have less than two months to agree on how to manage the troubled river.

Officials are growing more and more concerned about low water levels in the Colorado River, which recently saw one of its ...

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 ...

Water officials from the seven Colorado River Basin states are still at odds over how to manage dwindling water resources as ...

These reductions are real. In 2023, Arizona, California and Nevada used only 5.8 million acre-feet of Colorado River water – their lowest combined annual consumption since 1983. The Lower Basin’s ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A group of experts says Western states urgently need to cut water use to avert a deepening crisis on the Colorado ...

Colorado River water users in California presented their own framework for how to share the river’s dwindling water supply, ...