The federal government and water agencies in Arizona, California and Nevada signed a landmark agreement to explore ways to ...

Colorado River experts reviewed water usage rates and found that a dry winter will 'crash' reservoirs. A wet one will only ...

Even a huge snowpack during the coming winter would only give the river basin states less than two years of storage before ...

A desalination plant that produces up to 54 million gallons of water per day provided the backdrop as water officials from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Footprints where people have sunk into mud are pictured above Gypsum Canyon rapid in Cataract Canyon on the banks of the Colorado ...

The Bureau of Reclamation is projecting record lows for Lakes Mead and Powell.

The Central Arizona Project aqueduct carries Colorado River water, flowing beside the Norterra Pointe neighborhood in Phoenix. (Kelvin Kuo / Los Angeles Times) As the Colorado River’s giant reservoirs ...

During a tour of the Western Slope last week, U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., said he was frustrated with the pace of negotiations that could determine how the Colorado River is shared in the ...

The seven states that share the river's dwindling water can't agree on cutbacks. A federal agency that had sought a 20-year plan now seeks stopgaps.

Arizona, California and Nevada have struck a Colorado River deal to conserve 3.2 million acre-feet over two years and slow Lake Mead's decline.