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Colorado River officials plan to expand a conservation program, but questions remain about some of the proposed ideas.

Colorado River officials plan to expand a conservation program next year that pays farmers and ranchers to use less water. But questions remain about some of the proposed ideas and the program’s overall efficacy.

The Colorado River winds through seven states and two nations, including 277 miles through the Grand Canyon. Here's where the river starts and ends.

Farmers and ranchers in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico will be eligible to receive compensation for water conservation over the next year, following a recent agreement among these Upper Colorado River Basin states. Officials from the four states voted last week to revise and extend what’s known as the System Conservation Pilot Program (SCPP)…

For Star subscribers: But two retired U.S. scientists say the judge who prescribed the water rights didnt go far enough — the opposite view of local governments and business interests.

The Colorado Cattlemen’s Association Ag Water NetWORK hosted a webinar to provide an update to agriculture producers on the 2023 Colorado Water Plan and on the Colorado River Basin. Amy Ostdiek, Interstate, Federal and Water...

Environmentalists' calls for the Colorado River to flow freely across the Utah-Arizona border is now receiving support from influential farmers in California’s Imperial Valley.

Environmentalists' calls for the Colorado River to flow freely across the Utah-Arizona border is now receiving support from influential farmers in California’s Imperial Valley.

California growers and others in the river’s Lower Basin want the federal government to consider draining Lake Powell to conserve more water downstream.

For years, environmentalists have argued that the Colorado River should be allowed to flow freely across the Utah-Arizona border, saying that letting water pass around Glen Canyon Dam — and