Post-2026 Guidelines

Post-2026 Guidelines

CENTER SQUARE: Arizona leaders urge feds to defend state water rights

The Center Square

November 18, 2025

Officials write about Colorado River pact affecting Arizona, California, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming. By Zachery Schmidt, The Center...

ASPEN JOURNALISM: No deal on Colorado River

Aspen Journalism

November 13, 2025

Seven states fail to reach agreement by feds’ Nov. 11 deadline By Heather Sackett, Aspen Journalism Water managers from the...

CAL MATTERS: No deal on the Colorado River despite Trump administration deadline

November 12, 2025

The federal government often makes deadlines on the Colorado River, but — in recent years — rarely has enforced them....

NEVADA CURRENT: With Upper, Lower basin states still snagged, feds give them more time to craft Colorado River plan

November 12, 2025

By Jennifer Solis, Nevada Current Nevada and six other Colorado River states failed to reach a broad agreement Tuesday on...

CAL MATTERS: Colorado River talks hit crunch time. What’s at stake for California water?

November 11, 2025

Western states in the Colorado River basin are racing a federal deadline to hash out the beginnings of an agreement...

HIGH COUNTRY NEWS: Why Colorado River negotiations are so difficult

High Country News

November 11, 2025

Basin states have had 2 years to figure out how to share the shrinking river. Will they get there before...

METROPOLITAN IMPORTED WATER SUBCOMM: Navigating the future of the California and the Colorado River: Key challenges and negotiations

November 3, 2025

Addressing the structural deficit, Compact obligations, and Post-2026 guidelines for Metropolitan’s Colorado River supply At last week’s meeting of Metropolitan’s...

UPPER CO RIVER COMMISSION: Real action puts the Upper Basin at the forefront of Colorado River solutions

Guest Contributor

November 3, 2025

With new agreements and programs and decades of responsible management, the Upper Basin is preparing for future Colorado River operations...

UTAH DISPATCH: Deadline closing in for Utah and 6 other states hammering out a new water plan

Guest Contributor

October 31, 2025

Upstream and downstream states have less than two weeks to power through sticking points By Annie Knox, Utah News Dispatch...

INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS: As Colorado River nears collapse, it faces leadership, transparency ‘crisis,’ environmentalists warn

Inside Climate News

October 7, 2025

A new report from a coalition of environmental organizations offers recommendations on how to address the declining water supply in...

ASPEN JOURNALISM: Report takes aim at Colorado River water managers’ inaction

Aspen Journalism

October 3, 2025

Recommendations call for no new dams or diversions By Heather Sackett, Aspen Journalism In a new report, a group of...

METROPOLITAN: Adapting to a Changing Colorado River: Lessons from the past, plans for the future

October 1, 2025

The Colorado River Basin states continue to meet in an effort to reach an agreement by the November deadline set...

NEVADA CURRENT: ‘Getting down to the wire,’ conservation groups try to pump up Colorado River negotiations

October 1, 2025

by Jeniffer Solis, Nevada Current More than three decades ago, water managers in Southern Nevada launched a plan to pipe...

AG ALERT: Negotiations stall as Colorado River crisis looms again

September 24, 2025

By Caleb Hampton, Ag Alert Time is running out for the seven states in the Colorado River Basin, as well...

INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS: ‘No One Comes Out of This Unscathed’: Experts Warn That Colorado River Use Needs Cutting Immediately

Inside Climate News

September 16, 2025

A new report finds that Lakes Mead and Powell, the nation’s largest reservoirs, could store just 9 percent of their...

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