Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Footprints where people have sunk into mud are pictured above Gypsum Canyon rapid in Cataract Canyon on the banks of the Colorado ...

New U.S. Department of the Interior data confirmed what many already feared: The Colorado River system, which pumps out water ...

Lower Colorado River water leaders are pitching a new plan to stave off the threat of low water levels at key Colorado River ...

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The Bureau of Reclamation is projecting record lows for Lakes Mead and Powell.

The three states comprising the Colorado River’s Lower Basin have offered the federal government a short-term plan to address the dangerously low conditions across the river system while negotiations ...

The Central Arizona Project aqueduct carries Colorado River water, flowing beside the Norterra Pointe neighborhood in Phoenix. (Kelvin Kuo / Los Angeles Times) As the Colorado River’s giant reservoirs ...

During a tour of the Western Slope last week, U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., said he was frustrated with the pace of negotiations that could determine how the Colorado River is shared in the ...

It's not clear yet how the money would be distributed among several states in a river basin where political fights over how ...

Arizona, California and Nevada have struck a Colorado River deal to conserve 3.2 million acre-feet over two years and slow ...