A warm and dry winter is raising concerns about extremely low reservoir levels, hydropower generation and summer recreation.

Record low snowpack in the Upper Colorado River Basin is raising serious concern for downstream users – like New Mexico.

The state is having one of the warmest winters on record — the implications could stretch into spring and summer.

In Colorado River negotiations, states are still at odds but working toward a 5-year plan, Utah's top negotiator said.

Rising temperatures, diminished rainfall and steadily increasing usage have taken a serious toll on the Colorado River and ...

You might think a mighty river carving the Grand Canyon would easily make its journey to the ocean. The truth is far more ...

The proposals range from taking “no action” to a scenario that might result in water cuts to the lower basin states of California, Nevada and Arizona. One alternative developed in partnership with ...

Two months after the seven states of the Colorado River basin failed to reach consensus on managing the waterway, the U.S.

Recent research shows the Western U.S. has emerged as a global snow drought "hotspot" where snow droughts are becoming more ...

Heavy autumn rains brought relief to drought-plagued portions of the Southwest, but across the Colorado River basin, ongoing water supply concerns still linger amid tense policy negotiations and near ...

Even if spring brings a lot of snow, Colorado River water managers will likely rely on the Wyoming-Utah reservoir to help maintain Lake Powell, state water officials say. The post ‘Snow drought’ may ...

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 State University.