Colorado River states meet Friday in DC with federal deadline looming, litigation threat growing

The governors of six of the seven of the Colorado River Basin states plan to meet Friday in Washington, D.C., in an attempt to break a stalemate in Colorado River water negotiations. Interior ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

Colorado River experts say some management options don’t go far enough to address scarcity, climate change

Federal officials have released detailed options for how the Colorado River could be managed in the future, pushing forward ...
Times of San Diego

Low water levels threaten Colorado River talks

Drought-stricken Lake Mead on the Colorado River in August 2022. (File photo by Christopher Clark / U.S. Bureau of Reclamation) After one of the Colorado River’s driest years in decades, ...
Colorado Public Radio

Arizona, Nevada and Mexico will again get less water from the Colorado River in 2026

Arizona, Nevada and Mexico will again live with less water from the Colorado River as drought lingers in the West, federal officials announced Friday. The Colorado River is a critical lifeline ...
Vail Daily

As Colorado finds more zebra mussels in the Colorado River, is removal out of the question?

When it comes to zebra mussels in the Colorado River system, Colorado Parks and Wildlife Director Jeff Davis summed it up this way: “We look, we find.” While Colorado’s first detection of the ...
Times of San Diego

Opinion: Wisdom from a Nobel winner to defuse the Colorado River crisis

Drought-stricken Lake Mead on the Colorado River in August 2022. (File photo by Christopher Clark / U.S. Bureau of Reclamation) In March 2025, the United States took an unprecedented step by ...