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“Everything blew up” in negotiations last week, Kyle Roerink, executive director at the Great Basin Water Network, told The Hill in an interview.

New Mexico will not face mandatory cuts in Colorado River water usage at this time as the U.S. Department of the Interior implements actions to address falling levels in Lake Powell and Lake Mead.  Actions the department announced on Tuesday include mandatory cuts in water use in the Lower Basin and reductions in the amount […]

The Colorado River supplies water for more than 36 million people in two countries and seven states, including New Mexico. As river flows and reservoir levels decline due to drought, warming and over-demand, states are wrangling over how to voluntarily conserve water use—before reservoir levels reach critically low levels and trigger mandatory cutbacks. New Mexico […]

Federal officials on Tuesday moved to implement a series of emergency cuts to water use in the Colorado River Basin.

As California and six other western states scramble to reach a deal to cut use of Colorado River water, what will the federal government do?

Water releases from Lakes Powell and Mead will be reduced again next year because of declining reservoir levels, the federal government said Tuesday as it outlined new measures to respond

Two months ago, federal officials told states that depend on the Colorado River to make plans for major cuts. Negotiations have yet to produce a deal

An extraordinary drought in the West is drying up the Colorado River and draining the nations largest reservoirs -- Lake Mead and Lake Powell. And amid the overuse of the river and the aridification of the region, the U.S. federal government is preparing to make mandatory water cuts and asking states to devise a plan to save the river basin.

As California and six other western states scramble to reach a deal to cut use of Colorado River water, what will the federal government do? Story from @CalMatters.

As California and six other western states scramble to reach a deal to cut use of Colorado River water, what will the federal government do?