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A Western Slope water conservation district has released a draft of the rules it plans to use to guide a program paying water users to cut back.  The Glenwood Springs-based Colorado River Water Conservation District...

If western states do not agree on a plan to safeguard the Colorado River — the source of the region’s vitality — there won’t be enough water for anyone.

Marc Stilson, Southeastern Regional Water Rights Engineer, spoke during the Emery County Public Lands meeting on Tuesday on all things water. He remarked that the water content in this past storm had doubled the snow water content in the watershed. On Dec. 27, the volume of water held in the snowpack stood around six inches.

CASPER, Wyo. — The Upper Colorado River Commission plans to revive a program that pays irrigators and other valid rights holders to voluntarily leave

A bipartisan measure from U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper seeking to fund conservation efforts in the Upper Colorado River basin hangs in the balance as federal lawmakers are poised to vote

Update: the Senate passed the spending bill on a 68-29 vote; it now heads to the House.

Water managers across drought-stricken West agree on one thing: ‘This is going to be painful’

If western states do not agree on a plan to safeguard the Colorado River — the source of the region’s vitality — there won’t be enough water for anyone.

Water authorities in the Western U.S. don’t have a crystal ball, but rapidly receding reservoirs uncovering sunken boats and other debris lost in their depths decades ago give a clear view of the hard...

If Western states don't agree on a plan to safeguard the Colorado River, there won’t be enough water to source for residents.