Water issues will no doubt make the news in 2026. A water expert at the Central Arizona Project, which delivers Colorado ...

Arizona heads into the new year with uncertainty over its water future. There is still no agreement on how the Colorado River ...

Bipartisan letter sent to federal agencies, calling on them to fund Colorado River drought-response projects Colorado’s entire congressional delegation, Republicans and Democrats alike, is calling for ...

Negotiations over how to stabilize the shrinking Colorado River are so deadlocked that one of the seven state officials ...

The clock is ticking on the Colorado River. The seven states that use its water are nearing a 2026 deadline to come up with new rules for sharing its shrinking supplies. After more than a year of ...

Colorado’s congressional delegation has united to ask the Trump administration to release $140 million in funding previously granted to water projects in the state, including $40 million to aid in the ...

These days, there’s a lot that divides the Colorado delegation along party lines. But one thing they’re all in agreement on is the need for the federal government to release about $140 million it’s ...

Federal water officials addressed the increasingly grim river conditions and laid out their options for dealing with ...

The Colorado River will remain in shortage through 2026, federal officials announced, a decision that was expected after an especially poor winter runoff season. Arizona suffers the largest cuts under ...

In an effort to head off concerns about the state’s role in a major Western Slope water deal, a Western Slope water district has offered up a compromise proposal to Front Range water providers. To ...

This article is published through the Colorado River Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative supported by the Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water, and Air at Utah State University.

The Middle Colorado Watershed Council (MCWC) has broken ground on the Roan Creek Fish Barrier Project after more than five years of planning. Located in western Garfield County’s De Beque Canyon, the ...