The Latest Breaking News from the Colorado River

Arizona, California and Nevada agree to cut water usage from the Colorado River by 13 percent over three years.

Long before climate change threatened the very existence of the Colorado River, two women botanists set off with a group of amateur boatman to record the plants that lived along what was then the most dangerous river in the world

One way to save massive amounts of water from the drying Colorado River — state and federal officials had hoped — was to effectively buy water this year from farmers and ranchers with a $125 million conservation program.

Farmers in Arizona are facing the brunt of climate change as the Colorado River experiences shortages. Even in rural and conservative areas, most agree something needs to change.

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.

Just as federal officials were laying out alternative scenarios last week for steep water supply cuts from the Colorado River due to the drying Southwest, California officials were warning that this year’s historic Sierra snowpack could flood much of the state later this year.

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.’

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…

The administration outlined options for making cuts to the Colorado River as supplies dwindle.