A new water market model for the Colorado River basin could improve water security and restore ecosystems amid intensifying shortages....
Conservationists demand that the state reevaluate the physical and legal availability of water taken by subdivisions from the San Pedro...
Thirty federally recognized tribes lay claim to a fourth of the Colorado River, a vital water source for 40 million people living in the western U.S. and Mexico. By Amanda Pampuro, Courthouse News Forty million people living in the southwest...
Key agreements that adapt the century-old Colorado River Compact to the strains of modern climate change are set to expire...
By Allen Best, Colorado Newsline Even-steven. That was the intent of delegates from the seven basin states in 1922 when...
Overuse and climate change are rapidly depleting groundwater throughout the region, but aquifers are not part of the negotiations among the seven basin states to cut back water use. By Wyatt Myskow, Inside Climate News This article originally appeared on...
The Colorado River’s water future was a major topic on the agenda at the inaugural meeting of the Metropolitan’s Subcommittee...
By Jennifer Solis, Nevada Current Lake Mead’s infamous bathtub ring is expected to get bigger this summer as low snowpack...
by Jeniffer Solis, Nevada Current The Las Vegas Valley Water District implemented a water rate structure two years ago that imposed hefty levies on the valley’s biggest residential water users. Now state lawmakers are seeking to reexamine those fees following...
By Daniel Crespo, Mehdi Nemati, Ariel Dinar, Zachary Frankel, and Nicholas Halberg, Giannini Foundation Of Agricultural Economics The Colorado River...
From Paloma Avila, Mehdi Nemati, Daniel Crespo, Ariel Dinar, Zachary Frankel, and Nicholas Halberg. Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics Federal...
by Kyle Dunphey, Nevada Current Researchers at the University of Utah recently published a first-of-its-kind study that measures the impact dust has on melting snow in the Colorado River Basin. Dust has long been credited to accelerating snowmelt in the...
Sen. John Hickenlooper said he’s frustrated at slow pace of negotiations By Heather Sackett, Aspen Journalism Aspen Journalism is an...
By Claire Griffiths, UCLA States across the Colorado River Basin are squandering a critical opportunity to ease the region’s historic...
An examination of Rocky Mountain snow finds higher contamination levels of mercury and others metals in the northern part of the range, consistent with increased current and historical mining in the region. From the Desert Research Institute: Mountain snowpacks accumulate...