The plan opens the door for major cuts to California, Nevada and Arizona, the three states downstream of the reservoirs.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation released its final environmental impact statement on Friday, July 31 — the next step in the process to set guidelines for the federal government’s operations of the ...

The Bureau of Reclamation has released a final environmental review that lays out how the federal government plans to manage ...

The Colorado River is undergoing a big change in management that has the potential to affect nearly forty million people who live in the Colorado River Basin and rely on Colorado River water. Due to ...

None of the seven Colorado River states is happy with the Trump administration’s plans to divvy up the river as it faces its driest conditions in decades, but Nevada may have its own solution.

A federal plan would impose drastic water cuts on Arizona, California and Nevada in dry years over the next decade. A legal battle could follow.

The Bureau of Reclamation released its long-awaited Colorado River drought plan, targeting Lower Basin states for cuts.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Concerningly low amounts of water are flowing from Rocky Mountain snowpack this spring, a summer of drought looms across swaths of the West, and the ...

The Colorado River’s Lower Basin states published a proposal Wednesday for the watershed’s long-term operations, just hours after their Upper Basin peers unveiled a rival offer — and as talks between ...