Water levels for the vital Colorado River are so low people can just walk across it - The ongoing climate crisis could have ...

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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Sarah Porter, Arizona State University (THE CONVERSATION) The Colorado River is in ...

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Cut Colorado River water use now, water researchers and other experts urge in a new report, to avoid putting the river system in a very difficult to potentially catastrophic position in a year. The ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A group of experts says Western states urgently need to cut water use to avert a deepening crisis on the Colorado ...

The Colorado River will remain in shortage through 2026, federal officials announced, a decision that was expected after an especially poor winter runoff season. Arizona suffers the largest cuts under ...

Dismal runoff led to a precipitous drop in water levels at Lake Powell this summer, forcing the National Park Service to close boat ramps and move docks into deeper waters. If this coming winter’s ...

Water managers from the seven states that share the Colorado River have blown a deadline given to them by the federal government to come up with a rough plan on how the drought-stricken river will be ...

A man was able to walk completely across the Colorado River in Laughlin due to extremely low water levels, documenting the ...