An archive of news on the Colorado River’s drought, shrinking reservoirs, and efforts to craft a new management plan for seven states and Mexico post-2026.
Missed deadlines, threat of litigation, conservation program prompt questions By Heather Sackett, Aspen Journalism Western Slope lawmakers had harsh words...
Desalination. Pipelines. Cloud seeding. Those are just a few ideas for how the Trump administration should save the desiccated waterway. By Jake Bittle, Grist This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The crisis...
by Marcus Reichley, Cronkite News The chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee warned Arizona and two other states that rely on the Colorado River on Wednesday that they will lose access to hundreds of millions in conservation...
Amid decreasing supply, key agreements governing future water use along the Colorado River expired this year. So did initial deadlines to commit to new agreements. By Amanda Pampuro, Courthouse News Service Four months past the deadline to produce a new...
by Jeniffer Solis Lake Mead could soon benefit from the nation’s largest desalination plant thanks to an agreement that would allow water agencies in Nevada, Arizona, and California to explore ways to exchange water supplies across the drought-challenged Colorado River...
By Anne Castle, Jack Schmidt, Eric Kuhn, Kathryn Sorensen, Katherine Tara Stored water reserves in the Colorado River system continue to decline. The mismatch between natural supply and overall Basin water use is having the inevitable effect on Basin-wide storage. This paper analyzes the...
