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Newly discovered damage to part of the dam holding back America's second-largest reservoir has the 40 million people who rely on the Colorado River worried about their ability to get the water they need.The dam is a giant concrete monolith between towering walls of desert red rock in just south of the Utah-Arizona state line. Inside it, where the bottom of the dam meets the

An updated report gave best estimates of contingent recoverable resources of 1.2 billion barrels of marketable liquids.

Tubes at Glen Canyon Dam might be damaged, threatening future deliveries from Lake Powell if water levels get too low, the Bureau of Reclamation said.

NReport: 90 percent of Colorado River irrigation water used to feed cattle

As Wyoming and other states grapple with shrinking Colorado River water levels - new research pinpoints how much water is being diverted to feed cattle, to sprawling desert cities, and the rivers 40 million other stakeholders. The stakes are high in a time of persistent and widespread drought. Brian Richter - president of Sustainable Waters - said if Upper Basin states cant deliver the volume of water required under a century-old agreement, Lower Basin states could force the issue with whats...

For Star subscribers: Cattle feed, including alfalfa and other forms of hay, accounted for 46% of all water directly diverted from the Colorado River, a new study says.

For Star subscribers: A fix will be costly and may not last. If the tubes cant be used when the Colorado River is at very low elevations, no river water

For most of its 6 million-year existence, the Colorado River ran from the Continental Divide, high in the Rocky Mountains, downward and west, through forest and red rock, to a lush delta at the northernmost tip of the Gulf of California. Its winding descent carved, among other wonders, what people now call the Grand Canyon.Today, the Colorado is so siphoned and stalled by

California has agreed to make long-term cuts to the amount of water the state uses from the Colorado River, according to a proposed plan for managing

In 1922, the Colorado River Compact that divided the river’s water rights among seven U.S. states and Mexico left tribes out of the picture.