Estevan López, New Mexico's water negotiator, said talks resumed March 2, and the upper and lower basin states are using a short-term pitch from Nevada as a starting point.

Negotiators are facing a worsening water supply forecast, with record low snowpack across the West.

The San Diego County Water Authority doesn’t yet have a deal to discuss selling Colorado River water across state lines.

Western states say the federal government's plan to manage how to split up the Colorado River is doomed to be picked apart in ...

Upper and Lower Basin states are at odds over post-2026 operations for the drought-stricken river, raising litigation risks and highlighting credit uncertainty.

The prospect of a costly and prolonged interstate lawsuit over rights to the Colorado River looms now that the states using the water are blowing past a Valentine’s Day deadline with no water-sharing ...

On the headwaters of the Colorado River, water managers fear they are on the brink of a system failure as drought and climate change rewrite the old rules. Winter snowpack is no longer a reliable ...

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 ...

A wicked snow drought picked a bad year to plague the West, with the Colorado River already reeling. Arizona's local supplies are faring better.

Federal water managers are scrambling to write new rules for the Colorado River before current operating guidelines expire at ...