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It seemed inevitable that the dwindling Colorado River would be divvied up by the federal Bureau of Reclamation. On June 14, the bureau gave the seven states in the Colorado River compact just 60 days...

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...

It seemed inevitable that the dwindling Colorado River would be divvied up by the federal Bureau of Reclamation. On June 14, the bureau gave the seven states in the Colorado River compact just 60 days...

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...

By DAVE MARSTON

Joe ODea, the GOP contender for the U.S. Senate, insisted that the lower basin states, which include Colorado, shouldnt be "held responsible" for drastic reductions in water use and that

Gov. Jared Polis and his Republican challenger, Heidi Ganahl, spoke at Tuesdays Colorado Water Congress session, addressing climate change, the state water plan and the crisis on the Colorado River.

If Reclamation wont force us to act, how do we use less Colorado River water in time to save a rapidly deteriorating Lake Mead and Lake Powell?

The candidates for attorney general see water and the problems Colorado faces with its signature river in different lights but agree that renegotiating the Colorado River Compact, which dictates Colorado

States in the Colorado River Basin have failed to meet a federal deadline to conserve an unprecedented amount of water. The lack of consensus on how to wean off the river’s dwindling supply puts the water source for 40 million in the Southwest in jeopardy.