Las Vegas has emerged as a bastion of water conservation for the West, implementing regionwide efforts to do what it can to curb the Colorado River’s woes in the future. Almost every drop of ...

The Bureau of Reclamation — the federal agency tasked with managing America’s largest dams, including Hoover and Glen Canyon on the Colorado River — is facing as much as a 40% staff cut ...

Lake Mead and Lake Powell could be in for a tough year, with the latest estimates of Colorado's snowpack providing ...

How states dependent on the Colorado River are struggling to strike a long-term agreement Years of overuse combined with rising temperatures and drought have meant less water flows in the Colorado ...

The seven states that rely on water from the shrinking Colorado River are unlikely to agree to voluntarily make deep reductions in their water use, negotiators say, which would force the federal ...

Snowpack woes persist, too The whole Colorado River system faces an uncertain future, with the letter acknowledging that “imbalance between water supply and demand will be exacerbated by ...

and contract cancellations are bringing into question what the future of the Colorado River looks like as stakeholders approach a critical 2026 deadline for new water usage agreements. The ...

He is the author of The Colorado River: Chasing Water. As the Southwest dries, can a city notorious for excess find a way to survive with less? Water woes threaten America’s second largest ...