New data from the Bureau of Reclamation puts the river and its reservoirs in formal shortage conditions. Policymakers are ...

Arizona will again go without 18% of its total Colorado River allocation, while Mexico loses 5%. The reduction for Nevada — ...

Lake Mead, the river’s largest reservoir, is about 30% full and federal officials have now said that shortages will last ...

Arizona will again live with less water from the Colorado River as drought lingers in the West, federal officials announced ...

Federal officials announced Aug. 15 they would continue water allocation cuts on the Colorado River for the fifth consecutive ...

Arizona's Colorado River shortages will continue in 2026, but dry conditions and expiring agreements pose more uncertainty.

A fter one of the Colorado River’s driest years in decades, Lake Mead and Lake Powell — the largest reservoirs in the country ...

Arizona has taken cuts to its Colorado River water since 2022. But a set of agreements among Arizona’s cities, farms and tribes that share the burden of those shortages expires in 2026.

Yuma farmers 'will stand up' for their water rights Arizonans have cut almost 2.5 million acre-feet of water from their Colorado River use under mandatory restrictions since 2020, with the burden ...

If Arizona’s Colorado River water allocation was cut to zero, “we could burn through the available groundwater in 50 years,” Famiglietti said. “We’re talking about decades. That’s scary.

In landlocked Arizona, where the Colorado River crisis has put water use under a microscope, a new inland desert fish farm is growing barramundi — a tropical species native to Australia.

Once a booming gold town and candidate for Arizona’s capital, La Paz is now only ruins, remembered for its violence and a ...