Negotiators are looking at a different way to measure the amount of water in the river, providing a framework for a possible ...

The loss of more than 100 lives, many of them children, to Hill Country floods over the July Fourth weekend has shaken Texans ...

The simple solution has never been rewriting the interstate compact, as California has always wanted to do, but simply to distribute the water by the existing percentages — based on the river’s actual ...

Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Arizona has taken cuts to its Colorado River water since 2022. But a set of agreements among Arizona’s cities, farms ...

Millions of dollars in federal funding has been released to continue restoring lands and streams in the fire-scarred Upper ...

Congressional Democrats and Republicans are trying to revive a Colorado River water conservation program called “essential” as the new Trump administration attempts to freeze its fundin… ...

State negotiators are meeting more often. The Colorado River is a critical source of water for Arizona, providing 36% of the state’s water, according to the Arizona Department of Water Resources.

The source of salinity depends on where you are in the Colorado River Basin and when you’re looking. Up-basin in Colorado River tributaries in Eagle County — where naturally occurring salinity is very ...

If Arizona’s Colorado River water allocation was cut to zero, “we could burn through the available groundwater in 50 years,” Famiglietti said. “We’re talking about decades. That’s scary.