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Climate change and human consumption are the main drivers, the study warns.

Salt Lake Tribune: For the first time in five years, high volumes of water are gushing from the drought-depleted Lake Powell, replicating the spring floods that would naturally occur were the Colorado River not dammed at Glen Canyon. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation on Monday opened the gates at Glen Canyon Dam allowing up to 39,500 cubic feet per…

As the level of Lake Powell rebounds with this spring's big runoff, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has resumed high-flow releases from Glen Canyon Dam.

The place was Bishops Lodge, a secluded outpost outside of Santa Fe at the end of a winding rough road in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. It was selected just over 100 years ago by the man who only nine years later would be president of the United States during one of the nations most challenging eras, the Great Depression.

After 100 years, Colorado River water allocations under the Colorado River Compact face strict scrutiny as water levels have dropped due to drought, climate change and population growth. Read more.

Officials from up and down the Colorado River Basin on Friday talked in Grand Junction about the shared challenge of reducing water usage amid dwindling supply, with some Upper Basin

Members of the public soon will have some chances locally to become more water-wise at a time when that resource has become more precious than ever in the West.

Big river talks with state, tribal, and local representatives to headline the September 16 event at Colorado Mesa University.