During a tour of the Western Slope last week, U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., said he was frustrated with the pace of ...

The seven states on the Colorado River are spending millions of dollars to accurately measure how much water flows downstream and how much is taken out along the way. Quantifying the river's flow ...

Every year for the past 25, at least, negotiating teams for the seven states on the Colorado River have worked to overcome a new crisis, invariably driven by two entities: the state of California and ...

On the domestic level, the seven U.S. basin states are currently negotiating an update to the Colorado River’s operational guidelines, which are set to expire at the end of 2026.

Dust-on-snow is a major threat to water in the Colorado River, yet no snowmelt forecasts integrate dust-accelerated melt. Using pioneering remote sensing techniques, new research is the first to ...

It will take a concerted, collective effort to get Alice, or the Colorado River Basin, out of the deep ... within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation. Let us be able to have an opportunity to ...

The treaty also created the joint International Boundary and Water Commission ... For context, U.S. Colorado River basin states are entitled to 15 million acre-feet, and the average American ...

Over the last three years, the Colorado River Basin has experienced three relatively healthy winters. But that decent snowpack, after melting, hasn’t filled reservoirs like Lake Mead and Lake ...

The 30th annual Arkansas River Basin Water Forum in Pueblo recently brought together water managers and users from all over Colorado to talk about the often contentious nature of water in the ...

The study largely focused on water levels originating from snowmelt in the Upper Colorado River Basin, a region with large amounts of dust that regularly blows onto mountain snowpacks. Researchers ...