NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks with Russ Schumacher, professor at Colorado State University, about a new government proposal to reallocate water from the Colorado River among Western states who rely on it.
The governors of the three Southwestern states comprising the river's Lower Basin issued a joint statement pledging to keep working toward a deal — but also asserting that they have offered reasonable ...
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'This is terrifying': The Colorado River, a lifeline for seven states, is drying up at its source
High in the Rocky Mountains, spring-fed streams and ponds have vanished, leaving patches of cracked mud in what were once spongy meadows. This year has been so extremely warm and arid that the ...
The U.S. Department of the Interior has issued its plan for how to manage water on the Colorado River.
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As the Colorado River Basin endures a historic drought, officials offer incentives to conserve water
Government officials are taking a new approach in recent efforts to help preserve the Colorado River. Since 2000, the ...
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The Colorado River currently supports 40 million people and $1.4 trillion in annual economic activity in seven U.S. states and Mexico — but it was never intended to be stretched so thin. A century-old ...
A prolonged drought means the nation’s largest reservoirs are dwindling, and litigation over access to water could lie ahead. By Scott Dance Reporting from Boulder, Colo. Water in the Colorado River ...
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 ...
Fifty years ago, Colorado realized it had made a mistake. Its rivers, once alive with the movement of playful otters cutting through currents and pressing their tracks into sandbars, had gone quiet.
BOULDER, Colorado — If the Colorado River Basin experiences another dry winter, there will be an "outcome with devastating consequences," a new study warns. It is likely that storage in Lake Powell ...
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