Nevada and the six other states along the Colorado River basin are on the verge of signing a two-year agreement that would, in theory, temporarily end a long period of discord and contentious ...

Under a newly approved arrangement, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California could collect up to $65 million by ...

The upper and lower Colorado River basin states are working to make a plan for the future of Lake Powell amid critically low ...

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The Colorado River Basin is at a significant point in its history as Lake Powell and Lake Mead’s combined total water is now ...

Rising temperatures have sucked more than 10 trillion gallons of water out of the Colorado River Basin between 2000 and 2021 – a volume about the size of Lake Mead – according to a recent study.

The states along the Colorado River are proving the truth of the famous adage often attributed to Mark Twain: "Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over." At the end of the year, the current ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... All seven states in the Colorado River Basin now agree on an apparent short-term breakthrough in negotiations to save water from their drying region and it’s ...

The congressional amendment sought to overturn a fracking prohibition that protects water used by millions of people. Critics ...