Editor's note: This article is published through the Colorado River Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative supported by the Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water, and Air at Utah ...

‘We stand on the brink of system failure’: Feds up pressure for states to reach deal on the future of the Colorado River The clock is ticking for seven states to figure out how they’ll share dwindling ...

Utah and the six other states that rely upon the Colorado River on Tuesday failed to reach an agreement on how to manage the drought-stricken waterway that supplies water to 40 million people. The ...

The seven states that share the Colorado River blew past the Nov. 11 deadline without reaching even a framework for how to manage the river after 2026. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of the Interior ...

Experts say there’s no time to waste; even the time it takes to develop a new plan for the river may be too long for its ...

Western states in the Colorado River basin are racing a federal deadline to hash out the beginnings of an agreement governing the overtapped river.

State negotiators failed to meet a Tuesday deadline to reach an initial agreement over future operations of the drought-stricken Colorado River, but the Trump administration indicated it will allow ...

CEDAREDGE, CO — Grand Mesa’s hulking south flank appeared green and brown through the windshield as a crew of state water regulators rode up its dirt roads to christen a fraught 2025 irrigation season ...

Colorado and other upstream states aren't doing enough to commit to sharing and conserving water in the Colorado River system, Arizona's governor said.

The seven states that rely on the river blew a deadline to strike a new water sharing agreement. Cuts are surely coming.

When it comes to zebra mussels in the Colorado River system, Colorado Parks and Wildlife Director Jeff Davis summed it up ...