The Latest Breaking News from the Colorado River

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.

Depending on the plan, either California would be the most affected, or Arizona and Nevada would be parched

LOS ANGELES — The federal government on Tuesday laid out two options for preventing the Colorado River’s depleted reservoirs from falling to critically low levels, saying it could either impose cuts across the Southwest by following the water-rights priority system or by using an across-the-board percentage.

The Biden administration has evaluated how seven Western states that are reliant on the dwindling water supply from the Colorado River could dramatically cut their water use in the basin

LOS ANGELES — Four months ago, the outlook for the Colorado River was so dire that federal projections showed imminent risks of reservoirs dropping to dangerously low levels.