Through negotiation and court battles, states worked out agreements — the law of the river — to split the water equally between upper and lower basin states. The lower states use just about ...

A recent UCLA study found that in just the last two decades, rising temperatures from climate change sucked more than 10 trillion gallons of water out of the river basin – a volume about the ...

A pool of Colorado River water could soon be lost for good, leaving Arizona cities and tribes with rights but none of its water.

Water recycling can significantly lessen the burden on the Colorado River Basin, but just 26% of treated municipal wastewater is reused across the seven states that depend on the overdrawn river ...

Coachella Canal Construction 1948 courtesy CVWD We pump our local water from wells. Our aquifer is then refilled primarily from the Colorado River water ... And that’s just the first 1,000 ...

Conditions on the drying Colorado River are worsening faster than ... of Rhode Island under more than seven feet of water. And that’s just so the basin can survive long enough to plan for ...

The federal government dammed the Colorado River just downstream in the 1930s, providing the water and recreation opportunities that have allowed the community to flourish. The opposite side of ...

California isn’t recycling nearly enough water, according to a new report by UCLA researchers, who say the state should treat and reuse more wastewater to help address the Colorado River’s ...

Drinking water is not yet impacted, but officials are taking urgent measures. Drought and sea level rise have caused salt water from the Atlantic Ocean to creep into the Delaware River Basin ...

A Wicklow TD with a background in ecology, marine science and environmental law fears that a recent government decision will weaken environmental protections which could have ‘disastrous’ consequences ...