Colorado River states have been given less than two months to agree on how to share water cuts from the shrinking river. ● Homeland Security waives environmental laws to speed the construction of a ...

Western states that rely on the Colorado River have less than two months to agree on how to manage the troubled river — and ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The seven states that rely on the Colorado River to supply farms and cities across the U.S. West appear no ...

Larson spoke Tuesday in Las Vegas on the first day of the Colorado River Water Users Association’s three-day gathering. He ...

Negotiators from seven states must tell the federal government on Tuesday whether they’ve made progress on an agreement to divide up water from the Colorado River. The river supplies drinking water ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The likelihood of Western states reaching a consensus on a plan for the future of the Colorado River is dimming as time runs out for the negotiators tasked ...

Missouri is almost completely in drought and Iowa is almost drought-free. The top and bottom of the Mississippi River has had high streamflows this month, but about a quarter of gauges throughout the ...

New research based on satellite data shows the depletion of groundwater in the Colorado River Basin far exceeds losses from the river’s reservoirs. Scientists say overpumping is leading to alarmingly ...

“They’re asking me to give up the future we were promised and to make promises that I can’t keep,” a Wyoming official said. Disagreements over whether states in the Colorado River Basin should agree ...

Colorado River water users in California presented their own framework for how to share the river’s dwindling water supply, ...