Colorado River District

Mounting pressure to find water to conserve has Upper Basin leaders saying the savings should come from elsewhere

The conversation around water speculation has been heating up in Colorado in recent months. At the direction of state lawmakers, a work group has been meeting regularly to explore ways to strengthen the state’s anti-speculation law.

Coal-fired power plants are closing, or being given firm deadlines for closure, across the country. In the Western states that make up the overallocated…

Water managers on the Colorado River are facing a unique moment. With a temporary fix to the river’s scarcity problem recently completed, talk has begun…

Water managers along the Colorado River are trying to figure out how to live with less.Climate change is growing the gap between the river’s supply, and…

In 2007, years into a record-breaking drought throughout the southwestern U.S., officials along the Colorado River finally came to an agreement on how…

Fear can be a powerful motivator.The mention of one plausible future scenario along the Colorado River is enough to make some water managers in the West…

A quiet, rising tension over water in the southwest has burst into the public square.Agencies that manage and dole out the Colorado River’s water in…

When you’ve held on to something valuable for a long time, it can be hard to choose to give it up. When that something is water, it’s even harder —…

Update 10-23-17: The Colorado Attorney General's Office has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit brought by Deep Green Resistance on behalf of the…