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Flaming Gorge Reservoir, which Bureau of Reclamation officials have used twice during the past two years to add water to the rapidly deteriorating Colorado River system, likely has only enough

Arizona and Nevada water officials voiced frustration this week that a deal to conserve a vast amount of water needed to protect the levels in Lake Mead and Lake Powell

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Water scarcity on the River means deeper cuts are coming.

Lake Mead’s receding waters have exposed sunken boats, dead bodies, and more. But the wisdom of a bet placed in 2005 by Las Vegas has also been revealed. The Southern Nevada Water Authority draws 90%...

Growing less hay is the only way to keep the river’s water system from collapsing

The generous monsoon season along the Upper Basin of the Colorado River has been a relief to those who remember recent summers suffocated by wildfire smoke in the American West. But according to Brad Udall, senior water and...

Editor's note: this piece was authored by Micah Safsten.In the west, we like to say that “Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting.” This is still true, but this summer’s

The Colorado River Basin meanders through seven U.S. states and supplies water to Lake Powell in the Upper ...

CAMP HALE – If Michael Bennet is re-elected in November and serves out his full six-year term, he will become Colorado’s longest-serving U.S. senator in the century since state legislatures stopped se...