Following the Colorado River Basin states’ failure to reach an agreement, the future of the river and management of its two critical reservoirs now rest in the hands of the federal government. ...

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 ...

With the Colorado River shrinking and its water rights in flux, the Central Arizona Project has assembled a coalition to ...

Utah River Commissioner Gene Shawcroft said the Lower Basin states, and particularly Arizona, have been "untruthful." ...

With the seven basin states locked in a stalemate over Colorado River negotiations, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation released its draft of options for managing the basin’s water supply. The states now ...

PHOENIX – A Feb. 14 deadline came and went without Arizona and the other Colorado River basin states coming to terms on a new operating agreement amid historic drought conditions. One day before the ...

One day before the deadline, states in the Upper Colorado River Basin reached consensus on how to manage water rights and dwindling resources moving forward, but the Lower Basin states rejected the ...