The Colorado River is a vital lifeline for the arid U.S. Southwest. It supplies water to seven states, Mexico, 29 Indian reservations and millions of acres of irrigated farmland.
A group of residents on the Eastern Plains are suing a local water district over a tax increase from 2019 that the group argues is unconstitutional.
A study predicts the southeastern section of New Mexico will only get hotter and dryer in the coming years.
Action on behalf of Northwest salmon could be in the works after a request to pause litigation over managing dams in the Columbia and Snake Rivers.
A powerful storm system known as an atmospheric river is heading for northern California and Oregon, a region in the midst of an historic drought.
A rating agency is warning water shortages in western states reliant on the Colorado River could lead to rate hikes that would be unaffordable for some.
Communities that rely on the Colorado River are facing a water crisis. Lake Mead, the river's largest reservoir, has fallen to levels not seen since it was created by the construction of the Hoover Dam roughly a century ago.
The 2021 water year ended on Sept. 30, and it was another hot, dry year in the western U.S., with almost the entire region in drought.
A cooperative effort to restore habitats along the Lower Colorado River Basin is seeing the re-emergence of several threatened and endangered species.
Water projects in Colorado are getting a $7.9 million boost from tax revenue collected during the first fiscal year of legalized sports betting in the state.
