There are five options of what management of the vital waterway could look like after the current rules expire in August.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tribal representatives speak on panel during 2025 Colorado River Water Users Association. (Left to Right) Jenny Dumas, water ...

As Colorado continues to negotiate with the seven Colorado River basin states on the post-2026 operations of Lake Powell and ...

A worker cleans grates in an irrigation ditch in Imperial Valley on Oct. 10, 2023. A pump sends Colorado River water to sprinklers on a farm field. / Photo by Ariana Drehsler Sign up for The Morning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Chuck Cullom addressed an audience at a June water conference in Colorado, the snows high in the Rocky Mountains behind him ...

The Colorado River District’s acquisition of the Shoshone water rights cleared a critical hurdle on Wednesday night as it entered into an instream flow agreement with the Colorado Water Conservation ...

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 ...

CIÉNEGA DE SANTA CLARA, Mexico — The rusty observation tower at the edge of this wastewater-fed marsh offers an osprey-eye view of two possible futures for the parched and overworked Colorado River.

As I’ve followed the long-running negotiations over the Colorado River the last couple of years, very little progress has been made in transforming the century-old system of managing the river’s ...