There are five options of what management of the vital waterway could look like after the current rules expire in August.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lake Mead, impounded by Hoover Dam, contains far less water than it used to. Kevin Carter/Getty Images The Colorado River is in ...

The Colorado River District is celebrating the five-year milestone of its Community Funding Partnership (CFP), a voter-approved funding program created to help West Slope communities advance multi-ben ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Chuck Cullom addressed an audience at a June water conference in Colorado, the snows high in the Rocky Mountains behind him ...

The drought shows why the seven states that share the river must reach a long-term agreement on water use, department officials said. The Interior Department on Friday forecast continued dry times ...

Negotiators are looking at a different way to measure the amount of water in the river, providing a framework for a possible deal on reducing withdrawals. In the contentious talks over how states will ...

For Las Vegas to keep its taps flowing, Rep. Susie Lee says this one drought measure must survive federal spending purges: water recycling. Lee, D-Nev., and Rep. Juan Ciscomani, R-Ariz., introduced ...

There’s around a year left for the seven states utilizing Colorado River water to finalize new rules on how to manage it, but the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s Colby Pellegrino said Thursday ...

Water from the Colorado River and its tributaries irrigates farms, sprinkles lawns and quenches the thirst of millions across Utah and the greater Southwest. While only 27% of the state’s water comes ...

The Colorado River is in trouble: Not as much water flows into the river as people are entitled to take out of it. A new idea might change that, but complicated political and practical negotiations ...