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With the Colorado River overtaxed, Grand Valley farmers and ranchers face questions on water use as river levels drop in the state, Lake Powell, Lake Mead.

With the Colorado River overtaxed, Grand Valley farmers in Colorado now face some of the most urgent questions regarding the future of water in Colorado River and the West.

Water managers in recent weeks have put forth plans for conservation aimed at addressing the water-scarcity crisis on the Colorado River.

Water managers in recent weeks have put forth plans for conservation aimed at addressing the water-scarcity crisis on the Colorado River. But the proposals, which are vague and voluntary and lack goals with numbers, will...

The proposals, which are vague and voluntary and lack goals with numbers, will probably do little to get additional water into the nation’s two largest reservoirs with the urgency officials say is needed.

A summer deadline approaches for state leaders to agree on how to cut their water use from the Colorado River.

Colorado’s U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper is pushing legislation that aims to make federal funding available to pay farmers and ranchers to voluntarily use less water by leaving their fields temporarily ...

At the end of June, the Federal Bureau of Reclamation (FBR) gave the seven states along the Colorado River 60 days to make serious cuts to water usage or the bureau would do it for them.

States in the Upper Colorado River Basin are not ready to commit to federal water conservation targets, but are seeking to revive a conservation program first launched in 2014.

U.S. Sens. John Hickenlooper and John Barrasso are teaming up on legislation to help the upper basin states of the Colorado River in their quest to meet the demands by