A new report compiled by CU warns that threats to the Colorado River's water supply are now so severe that they pose a ...

Interior officials are losing their patience with states as the West’s most important river teeters on the brink of crisis.

Rules were in reaction to U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled that the Clean Water Act only applied to streams or wetlands ...

Western states that rely on the Colorado River have less than two months to agree on how to manage the troubled river.

But the city, which gets 40 percent of its water supplies from the Colorado River, is one of the most legally vulnerable ...

There have been big fights over water in the western U.S. Water scarcity and climate change may bring similar battles to the Midwest and Great Plains. The western United States is known for big water ...

Seven Western states that depend on the Colorado River are ending the year at an impasse in negotiations over the writing of new rules for dealing with chronic water shortages. Representatives of ...

The Western U.S. is confronting a growing groundwater crisis exacerbated by factors such as rising temperatures and water demand. A legal expert is proposing multiple reforms to aid in the ...

The findings of recent water-conservation studies on the Western Slope could have implications for lawmakers and water ...