Even a huge snowpack during the coming winter would only give the river basin states less than two years of storage before ...

Years of drought and political brinkmanship have pushed the waterway to the breaking point.

The seven U.S. states that make up the Colorado River basin are struggling to agree on how best to manage the river’s water as its supply dwindles due to climate change and a period of prolonged ...

Water experts are calling for urgent changes at Lake Powell and Lake Mead, as a dry winter could send reservoir levels ...

The multitude of water managers tasked with overseeing the drying Colorado River system stand at a dire crossroads. As a yearslong stalemate in negotiations persists between the seven states that ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif - Even as California is offering to take less water from the drought-shrunken Colorado River, one of the state's biggest cities that's long been the most dependent on it curiously now ...

This article appeared in the May 2026 print edition of the magazine with the headline “The absence of clean water.”    This story is part ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Extended warm weather across the Colorado River basin may reduce the amount of water delivered during the spring runoff to just a third of normal, according ...

Vertical hydroelectric generators inside Hoover Dam are shown in January 2020. Modeling in the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Draft EIS shows that declining reservoir elevations at Lake Mead reduce ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Negotiators from the seven states along the Colorado River blew past yet another federal deadline over the weekend without reaching a compromise on how to ...