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Top water officials for the seven Colorado River Basin states met Thursday at this year’s Colorado River Water Users Association conference in Las Vegas. With a few more years of stability secured for the river, state representatives resumed negotiating a new compromise for how they will share — and cut back on — water use after 2026.

Water, and particularly agricultural water, is one of the favorite topics of folks who visit our salad bowl during the winter months. There are always articles popping up in regional

At an annual meeting in Las Vegas, Colorado River policymakers said new rules may be a "messy compromise."

LAS VEGAS – What’s one central message when it comes to how the water supply for 40 million people in the Western U.S. will be managed in coming years? It won’t be pretty. The top negotiators for the ...

The annual Colorado River Water Users Association met this week, but for the first time in several years, state water policy leaders say there’s less urgency for short-term fixes and more time …

The hard-fought negotiations over how to share the pain from shrinking water supplies will affect tens of millions of people and powerful farming interests.

LAS VEGAS — Representatives from two Lower Basin states on the Colorado River have said they would finally address something that the Upper basin states, including Colorado, have long pressed them to do: Fix the...

The four states are not taking land and they are not buying water rights. But the Colorado River is in trouble and the Upper Basin states are saving water where they can when it comes to consumptive use.

One expert believes the Colorado River Commission made a dire mistake when divvying up the water.

Arizona and its neighbors use most of the Colorado River's water, but those states say they can't save the river without help from upstream.