New Colorado River Abundance Act Aims to Protect Water Supply, Hydropower, and Recreation in the Western U.S.

At its core, the framework authorizes and coordinates development of new supply through large-scale desalination, advanced ...
Navajo-Hopi Observer

Tribes stake their claim on the Colorado River, and help conserve it

Tribes across the West have worked with states to protect the Colorado River and conserve enough water to raise elevations in ...
The Durango Herald

Colorado River Program’s new director ‘cautiously hopeful’ about interstate negotiations

Future water management cannot be organized how it is presently or as it was in the past, said Celene Hawkins, Durango resident and The Nature Conservancy’s new Colorado River Program director. The ...
Colorado Public Radio

Competing interests debate sale of historic Colorado River rights during marathon hearing

State water officials debated a controversial proposal to use two powerful Colorado River water rights to help the environment, weighing competing interests from Front Range and Western Slope water ...
Yahoo

Without a deal on the Colorado River, deeper cuts loom. How 9 Arizona cities will respond

As Chuck Cullom addressed an audience at a June water conference in Colorado, the snows high in the Rocky Mountains behind him were warming into water, which would soak into dry soils, evaporate into ...
Summit County

Colorado River users are at a crossroads as two looming decisions hang over the West’s future

Western Slope elected officials, water managers, engineers, and conservationists met in Grand Junction on Friday, Oct. 3, all focused on one thing: the uncertain future of the Colorado River. “Water ...
E&E

Deadline for Colorado River decision shifts to February

The clock is ticking on short-term interstate deals on water use. A long-term operating plan must be in place by Oct. 1, 2026. The Trump administration will give state officials hashing out the future ...
KTNV Las Vegas

Colorado River water negotiators fail to meet critical deadline

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — A critical deadline hits today for Colorado River water negotiations, as seven basin states scramble to reach an agreement for Post-2026 Operational Guidelines for the resource that ...
The Denver Post

Amid ‘a transparency desert,’ states look likely to blow past Colorado River deadline. What’s next?

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Negotiators tasked with hammering out the future of the shrinking Colorado River — and the 40 million people who rely on it — are once again careening toward ...
Colorado Public Radio

What’s holding up the Colorado River negotiations? Experts break down the sticking points.

Seven states in the Colorado River Basin are days away from a Nov. 11 deadline to hash out a rough idea of how the water supply for 40 million people will be managed starting in fall 2026. And they’re ...

Feds begin review of 5 possible plans for Colorado River shortages

Colorado River after current guidelines, in place since 2007, expire later this year. The new document drops during a continuing impasse among the seven states in the beleaguered river ...