The researchers found that groundwater was being depleted faster than it could be restored, and that total water loss was ...

The Colorado River basin has lost huge volumes of groundwater over the past two decades according to a new report from ...

As Colorado and other Basin states relying on the shrinking Colorado River work to reduce water use, new data showed just how much water is helping prop up factory farms. Amanda Starbuck, research ...

There is a long history of wrangling over the river’s water among the seven states in the Colorado River Basin, going back to the signing of a landmark 1922 compact, as my colleague Michael ...

But opponents worry the already over-tapped Colorado River Basin has little water to spare. The extraction technology Anson plans to use has never been used at the scale proposed, and questions ...

A slow start to winter snow could raise the stakes in Colorado ... Basin, below Lake Powell, would get 7.5 million acre-feet, and so would the Upper Basin, with some left over for Mexico. But the ...

PHOTOS: Crisis looms without big cuts to over-tapped Colorado River ... “We won’t let this river die.” Upper basin states - Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming - argue that they shouldn ...

For more than half a century, the seven Colorado ... river we have. We stand ready to continue to do our part in the critical task of preparing the Basin for a drier future. Our commitment over ...