The Latest Breaking News from Colorado River

LOS ANGELES — The seven states that depend on the Colorado River announced Monday that they have reached an agreement on cutting water use from the river over the next three years to prevent reservoirs from falling to critically low levels.

Arizona, California and Nevada on Monday proposed a deal to significantly cut their water use from the drought-stricken Colorado River over the next three years

Al Jazeera travels to Indigenous communities in western US that are asserting their water rights amid historic drought.

One of the largest rivers in the US is in crisis. Here’s all you need to know about the key western waterway.

Unique ecosystem on the brink of collapse due to climate crisis and mismanagement, says conservation group American Rivers

Fixing the Southwest’s water supply problem will be painful, and the big question might be ‘how to distribute that pain.’

The Biden administration floated two ideas this week for how Western states and Native American tribes could reduce their water use from the dwindling Colorado River

A 23-year western drought has drastically shrunk the Colorado River, which provides water for drinking and irrigation for Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California and two states in Mexico. Under a 1922 compact, these jurisdictions receive fixed allocations of water from the river – but now there’s not…

Feisty sports matches need referees to take control early or risk mayhem on the field. In the furious battle over the rights to dwindling Colorado River water — a game with life-or-death stakes — the U.S. government has let things get out of hand. It’s only just now starting to…