The federal Bureau of Reclamation late last week released a draft Environmental Impact Statement outlining options for how to deal with the Colorado River going forward.

The states along the Colorado River are proving the truth of the famous adage often attributed to Mark Twain: "Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over." At the end of the year, the current ...

PHOENIX — Central Arizona Project (CAP) delivers water to about 90% of the state’s population. CAP is a 336-mile system of aqueducts, tunnels, pumping plants and pipelines that carries Colorado River ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Sarah Porter, Arizona State University (THE CONVERSATION) The Colorado River is in ...

US state negotiators are battling over how to manage dwindling water resources in the Colorado River Basin, a lifeline for over 40 million people spanning across seven states and two countries.What ...

The Lower Basin states say they'll accept cuts, but only iff the headwaters states make concessions of their own. Those states say they have nothing left to give. Federal officials warned the states ...

LAS VEGAS — Negotiations over how to stabilize the shrinking Colorado River are so deadlocked that one of the seven state officials involved now says he doesn't think it's possible to get a 20-year ...