Several key agreements adapting the century-old Colorado River Compact to the aridifying region’s ever-decreasing water ...

As Colorado River experts and advocates gather for an annual conference, a scientist's harsh climate warning clouds efforts ...

Desalination plants are already in use all over the world, drawing in ocean ... the Colorado River, Becky Mitchell, director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board, said. But it’s not a ...

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

Today, the Colorado River rarely reaches the ocean. But this was not always the case: for millennia, the Colorado River stretched across the American West, carving out the states' iconic canyons ...

San Diego County Water Authority board member and Vice-Chair of the Colorado River Board of California. "Why not? You think of the fact that we have the Pacific Ocean. Now, there’s certain ...

The new year is opening to an uncertain and contentious future along the Colorado ... river flow, began agitating to establish an interstate compact to divide the waters. After initial efforts to ...

Every year for the past 25, at least, negotiating teams for the seven states on the Colorado River ... not have, under any law, to make such demands. Yet here we are again, the states trying to ...

The deadline for the U.S. Department of Interior to determine the post-2026 future of Lake Powell and Lake Mead — and the entire Colorado River ... reaching some sort of consensus despite challenges ...

Negotiators from the seven states that use the water from the Colorado River for cities and farms across the Western U.S. are running out of time to reach a deal to share the water in times of ...

Forecasters are confident it's a particularly bad water year for the Colorado River, worrying some about ... The Trump administration has not signaled when a permanent appointment will be made ...

The deadline for the U.S. Department of Interior to determine the post-2026 future of Lake Powell and Lake Mead — and the entire Colorado River ... reaching some sort of consensus despite challenges ...