An archive of news on the Colorado River’s drought, shrinking reservoirs, and efforts to craft a new management plan for seven states and Mexico post-2026.
New study holds implications for future water supply in the Colorado River Basin From the Desert Research Institute: In the summer of 2019, Desert Research Institute (DRI) scientist Rosemary Carroll, Ph.D., waited for the arrival of the North American Monsoon,...
by Jeniffer Solis, Nevada Current After three-decades and $330 million dollars the Southern Nevada Water Authority voted Thursday to suspend plans to build a 250-mile pipeline that would have pumped billions of gallons of groundwater from rural Nevada to the...
Touting successful conservation efforts in recent decades, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday it will reclassify a Colorado River fish from endangered to threatened. By Carson McCullough, Courthouse News Service Touting successful conservation efforts in recent decades, the...
By Brad Udall, Colorado State University; Douglas Kenney, University of Colorado Boulder, and John Fleck, University of New Mexico As Midwest states struggled with record spring flooding this year, the Southwest was wrestling with the opposite problem: not enough water. On...
Beset by the impacts of climate change, a drought and increased water demand, the Colorado River Basin was already running near empty before the Trump administration approved a new deal allowing additional extractions from one of its main tributaries. By...
