At its core, the framework authorizes and coordinates development of new supply through large-scale desalination, advanced ...

Tribes across the West have worked with states to protect the Colorado River and conserve enough water to raise elevations in ...

Future water management cannot be organized how it is presently or as it was in the past, said Celene Hawkins, Durango resident and The Nature Conservancy’s new Colorado River Program director. The ...

State water officials debated a controversial proposal to use two powerful Colorado River water rights to help the environment, weighing competing interests from Front Range and Western Slope water ...

Established in 1902, those senior rights ensure that when the river runs low, water continues to move west through our valleys, sustaining agriculture, wildlife habitat, and communities before ...

As Chuck Cullom addressed an audience at a June water conference in Colorado, the snows high in the Rocky Mountains behind him were warming into water, which would soak into dry soils, evaporate into ...

As the economic, ecological and cultural centerpiece of the American Southwest, the increasingly dire condition of the Colorado River remains a central focus of GWC activities. Continuing a recent ...

The clock is ticking on short-term interstate deals on water use. A long-term operating plan must be in place by Oct. 1, 2026. The Trump administration will give state officials hashing out the future ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — A critical deadline hits today for Colorado River water negotiations, as seven basin states scramble to reach an agreement for Post-2026 Operational Guidelines for the resource that ...

Seven states in the Colorado River Basin are days away from a Nov. 11 deadline to hash out a rough idea of how the water supply for 40 million people will be managed starting in fall 2026. And they’re ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Negotiators tasked with hammering out the future of the shrinking Colorado River — and the 40 million people who rely on it — are once again careening toward ...

JB Hamby, Colorado River Board of California chairman and Colorado River commissioner for California, speaks at the annual Colorado River Water Users Association’s conference in Las Vegas, Dec. 16, ...