During a tour of the Western Slope last week, U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., said he was frustrated with the pace of ...

In 2021, drought led Lake Powell to unprecedented lows, prompting the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to declare the first-ever water shortage in the Upper Colorado River Basin. The study shows that ...

The Colorado River system is the lifeblood of the southwest, delivering water to 40 million people across the United States ...

The river has been running especially low for the past decade, as drought has gripped the ... The city is one of the largest in the Colorado River basin, but its share of the river is relatively ...

The Colorado ... historic drought' In 2023, the Biden administration reached a landmark deal with states dependent on the Colorado River to conserve water, requiring the three lower basin states ...

Five out of seven Colorado River basin states are failing to maximize ... a situation in which prolonged drought, climate change, overuse and obsolete infrastructure have come together to create ...

according to the Colorado Basin River Forecast Center. Warming and drought brought on by climate change have reduced the Colorado River’s flows by about 20 percent since the turn of the century.