Colorado leaders approved a $99 million agreement for Xcel Energy to transfer Shoshone Hydroelectric water rights to the ...

A yearslong effort to purchase two of the most powerful water rights on the Colorado River has cleared another hurdle after ...

The Colorado River District’s acquisition of the Shoshone water rights cleared a critical hurdle on Wednesday night as it ...

With the CWCB’s vote last week, Colorado acquired something increasingly rare in a hotter and drier West: a measure of security and reliability. The Colorado River built this state. It binds our ...

The plan is a $99 million bid from water users on Colorado’s West Slope to ensure some of the state’s most valuable water ...

Colorado’s water board on Wednesday approved the acquisition of water rights associated with the Shoshone Power Plant for ...

Authors Martin P. Hoerling, Jon K. Eischeid, Henry F. Diaz, Balaji Rajagopalan, and Eric Kuhn (2024) “Critical Effects of Precipitation on Future Colorado River ...

Editor's note: This article is published through the Colorado River Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative supported by the Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water, and Air at Utah ...

The Colorado River is the region’s main water source, but experts fear persistent drought related to climate change could close the spigot for many cities in the Western U.S., including Colorado ...

This winter and spring are shaping up to be bad times for the Colorado River, with a federal forecast predicting flows into Lake Powell at barely three-fourths of normal. While snowpack has been at or ...

The Colorado River has sustained the American West for generations - but now, it’s running out of water. From farms to cities ...