As the Colorado River shrinks due to drought and climate change, the negotiators must decide who will take less water — and ...

The Colorado River Basin has lost twice as much groundwater since 2003 as water taken out of its reservoirs, according to a ...

These hotter and drier conditions in the western United States have drained the ... or drying this could easily go south.” Drought and the Colorado River What is the Colorado River?

Melting snow from California's Sierra Nevada is filling reservoirs. But dry conditions have shrunk the flow of the Colorado ...

As the Colorado River’s reservoirs have declined, even larger amounts of groundwater have been drained from aquifers. Using ...

One month after states ... river system. Water leaders, agricultural producers, environmentalists and others from across the drought-stricken river basin met Friday for the Colorado River District ...

The set of agreements includes two separate but interrelated drought contingency plans: one for states in the river’s Upper Basin — Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico — and the other for ...

After 23 years of drought, the desert southwest is in a water crisis ... California matter establishing broad parameters for the apportionment of Colorado River water among the United States, seven ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Banks along parts of the Colorado River where ... that supplies 90% of the United States’ winter vegetables. Water from the river is divided among Mexico and the seven ...

The researchers determined that since 2000, human-caused warming has become the dominant force leading to more drought ... of the Colorado River, a major water source for seven states and northern ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The Colorado River is managed like a joint bank account — seven states have equal shares ... in Nevada manage the fortune; when drought hits, and the budget is low, the ...