The world’s groundwater is disappearing at a rate so great as to knock the Earth off its axis. Like any global threat, though ...

Deep below the surface of the ground in one of the driest parts of the country, there is a looming problem: The water is ...

New research is showing that groundwater from the Colorado River Basin, or CRB, is depleting more quickly than most first ...

Overuse and climate change are rapidly depleting groundwater throughout the region, but aquifers are not part of the ...

Researchers found massive depletion of the region's groundwater, adding more stress to the drought-stricken Colorado River.

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 ...

The Colorado River Basin lost an alarming amount of groundwater over the past 20 years, a new study found. Nearly 28 million acre-feet of water has been depleted from the region, nearly the volume of ...

Becky Mitchell, Colorado’s lead Colorado River negotiator, delivered a peek into the dispute among states at a forum in ...

"In 2024, alfalfa farms in the Colorado River Basin used over 2 trillion gallons of water," Starbuck reported. "This is enough water, to put it in perspective, to supply the water needs for 40 ...

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 ...

litigation over the Colorado River Compact. Upper Basin water managers believe that as long as they don’t use more than the 7.5 million acre-feet allocated to them, they will not violate the compact.

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 ...