Years of drought and political brinkmanship have pushed the waterway to the breaking point.

If you took a look at a map of Rocky Mountain snow right now you would see a lot of red. The mountains that feed the Colorado River with snowmelt are strikingly dry, with many ranges holding less than ...

Negotiators from seven states must tell the federal government on Tuesday whether they’ve made progress on an agreement to divide up water from the Colorado River. The river supplies drinking water ...

Every winter, snow piles up across the mountains of Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, building the frozen reservoir that feeds the Colorado River and supplies water to roughly 40 million people in seven ...

Negotiators are looking at a different way to measure the amount of water in the river, providing a framework for a possible deal on reducing withdrawals. In the contentious talks over how states will ...

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As I’ve followed the long-running negotiations over the Colorado River the last couple of years, very little progress has been made in transforming the century-old system of managing the river’s ...