State officials may have solved the puzzle of how zebra mussels got into the Colorado River. On July 3, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials discovered a large number of adult zebra mussels in a ...

River basins are below normal across Western Colorado, and the Laramie and North Platte River Basin are in the best condition ...

Some signs of progress and optimism are emerging that the Colorado River Basin’s seven states could reach a short-term agreement on water use curbs by Tuesday — although not the 20-year deal that many ...

With their funding source under review by the Trump administration, states and the federal government are continuing a mission to better understand how much water flows in the Colorado River, and how ...

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 ...

On the headwaters of the Colorado River, water managers fear they are on the brink of a system failure as drought and climate change rewrite the old rules. Winter snowpack is no longer a reliable ...

Rules were in reaction to U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled that the Clean Water Act only applied to streams or wetlands that flowed year-round.

Interim guidelines for river management, agreed to in 2007, expire in 2026. The deadline to reach a new agreement and avoid federal intervention is November 11th. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — ...

The Colorado River is in dire health and could fail to meet demands if water managers don't act soon, a new study says. A quarter century of drought and growing demand have pushed the river's system ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Sarah Porter, Arizona State University (THE CONVERSATION) The Colorado River is in ...