The Colorado River is a vital water source for a large chunk of the West, but dust continues to impact its reliability, a ...

In response to the expiring rules for sharing the Colorado River, the authors of a new memo say states need to take shared ...

If water levels drop too low, hydropower generation could affect five million people across seven states. But the conditions ...

The spill is atop Florida Mesa, hundreds of feet above the Animas River. Detectors are now finding benzene seepage in ...

Although the headwaters of the Colorado River begin high in the mountains of Colorado, the river itself journeys 1,450 miles through many arid states. That journey leaves it vulnerable because the ...

National water conservation groups filed a legal petition Tuesday asking the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to stop downstream ...

The Colorado River system is the lifeblood of the southwest ... water flowing through their districts. A University of Utah-led study debuts a powerful remote-sensing dataset that informs the ...

Is wasteful water use causing shortages? The Natural Resources Defense Council is urging the U.S. government to enforce a ...

The Colorado River's Lower Basin states of California, Arizona, and Nevada send about $1.5 million each year to Utah, Wyoming ...

Hydrologists say that hotter temperatures have been drying out soils and vegetation in the west, leading to less water ...

The U.S. Department of Interior said Wednesday it extended more than a dozen contracts with water-rights holders in ...