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The Republican candidate for New Mexico attorney general and the state’s top election official have less than a week to prepare for a hearing on whether the GOP contender really does qualify to be on the ballot.

‘The law of the river is not suited to what the river has become’

The intensifying crisis facing the Colorado River amounts to what is fundamentally a math problem. The 40 million people who depend on the river to fill

The intensifying crisis facing the Colorado River amounts to what is fundamentally a math problem. The 40 million people who depend on the river to fill up a glass of water at the dinner table or wash their clothes or grow food across millions of acres use significantly more each year than actually flows through…

An essential primer detailing how overuse, megadrought and climate change are threatening the Colorado River's dwindling water supply throughout the West and Mexico.

The 40 million people who depend on the river for drinking water or to grow food across millions of acres use more each year than flows through the Colorado.

The intensifying crisis facing the Colorado River amounts to what is fundamentally a math problem. The 40 million people who depend on the river to fill

In November 1922, seven land-owning white men brokered a deal to allocate water from the Colorado River, which winds through the West and into Mexico.

Over the last two decades, pressure has intensified on the Colorado River as the driest 22-year stretch in the past 1,200 years has gripped the southwestern U.S.

A hundred years after the Colorado River Compact, pressure has intensified as the driest 22-year stretch in 1,200 years grips the Southwest.