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

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 ...

Drought-stricken Lake Mead on the Colorado River in August 2022. (File photo by Christopher Clark/U.S. Bureau of Reclamation) This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their ...

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: ...

Arizona, Nevada and Mexico will again live with less water from the Colorado River as drought lingers in the West, federal officials announced Friday. The Colorado River is a critical lifeline to ...

More than half of the Colorado River's total annual water flow is used on agriculture, a new study has found. The report, published in Communications Earth & Environment, was undertaken to find out ...

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 ...