With less water flowing through the Colorado River, Utah may have to cut back its consumption. That could affect farmers, ...

CEDAREDGE, CO — Grand Mesa’s hulking south flank appeared green and brown through the windshield as a crew of state water regulators rode up its dirt roads to christen a fraught 2025 irrigation season ...

Of all the challenges facing the Colorado River, there’s at least one that all stakeholders are working on collaboratively, not competitively — salinity. Since 1974, the seven Colorado River basin ...

Researchers at the New Mexico State University Agricultural Science Center in Farmington, N.M., works with alfalfa on July 22, 2020. Colorado River tributaries in New Mexico bring water to the alfalfa ...

There’s a good chance you’ve heard about the Colorado River compact because it's been in the news a lot. But compacts also govern rivers in southeastern Colorado. The agreements help guide how water ...

Editor's note: This article is published through the Colorado River Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative supported by the Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water, and Air at Utah ...

In an effort to head off concerns about the state’s role in a major Western Slope water deal, a Western Slope water district has offered up a compromise proposal to Front Range water providers. To ...

J.W. Powell in charge. pt. 1. History of the explorations of the cañons of the Colorado [May 24-Sept. 20, 1869] Report on a trip to the mouth of the Dirty Devil River [May 27-July 11, 1872] by A.H.

This year’s dry January hurt forecasts for the Colorado River, but February may position the basin for a comeback. The Colorado River relies heavily on snowpack in the Upper Basin states — Colorado, ...

On the headwaters of the Colorado River, water managers fear they are on the brink of a system failure as drought and climate change rewrite the old rules. Winter snowpack is no longer a reliable ...