Mexicali farmers say they are still owed money as part of an international agreement in which they agreed to not use Colorado ...

The Colorado River is running dry. Cooperation is the only way forward, writes Pete McBride.

The Interior Department must force seven bickering states to agree on drastic water cuts — after the driest winter in decades ...

One day before the deadline, states in the Upper Colorado River Basin reached consensus on how to manage water rights and dwindling resources moving forward, but the Lower Basin states rejected the ...

With seven states, 30 tribes and Mexico, the Central Arizona Project and the Gila River Indian Community addressed the uncertainty of the Colorado River Basin water shortage at the 2025 Society of ...

A worker cleans grates in an irrigation ditch in Imperial Valley on Oct. 10, 2023. A pump sends Colorado River water to sprinklers on a farm field. / Photo by Ariana Drehsler Sign up for The Morning ...

The Colorado River is about to get a new set of rules for its two largest reservoirs — Lake Powell and Lake Mead.

The Colorado River crisis is no longer part of some hypothetical future — it’s here. Fueled by one of the worst snowpacks on record, the “most probable” February projection from the U.S. Bureau of ...