The Colorado River and its reservoirs supply water to the 40 million people across the West who rely on the Colorado River.

The amount of snowmelt expected to reach the key reservoirs on the Colorado River this spring is far below the median of the ...

Water officials have raised concerns about the water levels in Lake Mead and Lake Powell, following a disappointing winter snowpack that threatens to stall progress made during last year's wetter-than ...

Before this year’s legislative session began, House Speaker Mike Schultz asked lawmakers "to take a break" from passing major ...

Time is ticking for states that share the shrinking Colorado River to negotiate a new set of governing rules. One major ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — An early season forecast indicates Lake Powell will get only about 81% of its normal water flow because of ...

Current snowpack levels in the Upper Colorado River Basin hit 90% of normal on Friday, better than where snowpack stood on Monday, when it had declined to 86%. It’s been a volatile end to ...

At the start of March, the Colorado Basin River Forecast Center reported that snow levels above Lake Powell were 87% of the median — the median snowpack in the area between 1991 and 2020.

In recent years, advocates of river restoration have called for reengineering the dam and gradually draining Lake Powell to store the water downstream in Lake Mead near Las Vegas. Hamby said the ...

The Lower Basin states of California, Arizona and Nevada are asking for a fresh look at proposals for sharing the shrinking ...

Reservoirs along the river may never rise to previous levels. Utah's Lake Powell has a "bathtub ring" that rises at least 70 feet above the water. Peter McBride From its source high in the Rocky ...