Extended warm weather across the Colorado River basin could reduce the amount of water delivered during spring runoff to a third of normal, according to federal forecasters.

The Colorado River water crisis isn't hitting everyone equally—century-old water laws mean that some communities face existential threats while others remain secure: these tensions are the heart of ...

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 denying ...

A slice of desert paradise, away from the crowds, lies a community along the Colorado River. Set across the river from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The so-called “bathtub ring,” a deposit of pale minerals left behind where reservoir water levels once reached, is shown on the ...

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In this aerial photo, a bathtub ring of light minerals show the high water mark on the shore of Lake Mead along the border of Nevada and Arizona, Monday, March 6, 2023, near Boulder City, Nev. (AP ...

The Colorado River basin spans parts of California, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming, and serves over 40 million people across the seven states, 30 tribes and Mexico. (Photo by ...

With no agreement among the seven Colorado River states, which missed multiple federal deadlines, the Upper Colorado River ...

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 ...