The authors of a new study say the Colorado River's huge reservoirs hold less useable water than the numbers suggest.

With a critical Nov. 11 deadline fast approaching, negotiators from the seven Colorado River basin states remain at odds over ...

People often think things ought to be illegal that already are, that we should regulate things we already do, even that things ought to be defined that already are. I couldn’t help wondering how ...

Sens. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) and John Curtis (R-Utah) introduced legislation aimed at optimizing water management in the U.S. West on Thursday, the eve of the region’s annual Colorado River Day.

The Colorado River Compact of 1922 specified that the upper basin states ... A few weeks later, John Entsminger, Nevada’s representative in interstate talks, similarly was vague about details. “It’s ...

On the headwaters of the Colorado River, water managers fear they are on the brink of a system failure as drought and climate change rewrite the old rules. Winter snowpack is no longer a reliable ...

As the economic, ecological and cultural centerpiece of the American Southwest, the increasingly dire condition of the Colorado River remains a central focus of GWC activities. Continuing a recent ...

OMAHA, Neb. — Nebraska is suing Colorado over the amount of water it draws from the South Platte River, the latest in a long history of water rights disputes between the states that have been left ...

OMAHA, Neb. — Nebraska is suing Colorado over the amount of water it draws from the South Platte River, the latest in a long history of water rights disputes between the states that have been left ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska is suing Colorado over the amount of water it draws from the South Platte River, the latest in a long history of water rights disputes between the states that have been ...