Seven states rely on the Colorado River, but they continue to struggle to find a deal on how to use the river's water.

The Colorado Basin is too complex to be effectively managed by a rigid binational treaty. Diverse interests and local conditions require adaptability.

The report notes that the vast challenges are straining the relationships among the seven basin states that include Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Nevada, as well as the ...

Your lettuce, your winter tomatoes, the cauliflower in your fridge right now. There's a good chance all of it came from farms ...

Drought-stricken Lake Mead on the Colorado River in August 2022. (File photo by Christopher Clark / U.S. Bureau of Reclamation) After one of the Colorado River’s driest years in decades, Lake Mead and ...

With chronic water shortages afflicting the Colorado River, discussions about how to cut usage have increasingly focused on a thirsty crop that consumes an especially large share of the river’s water: ...

At a key meeting to discuss the river's future management, federal officials lay out tools for dealing with falling reservoir levels.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced Tuesday that it has discovered zebra mussels in the Colorado River and the Government Highline Canal, nearly two years after the invasive species was first ...

Clare Carlson ’23 graduated with an economics major and minor in environmental studies and was a 2022-23 Environmental Ethics Fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. The ...