LCRA is warning its firm water customers that it will likely be moving to Stage 2 of its drought response in early March, ...
States that use the Colorado River say they don't want to go to the Supreme Court, but some are quietly preparing for ...
Water managers are preparing for another potentially lackluster runoff this year in the Colorado River Basin. At a meeting ...
The Rocky Mountain states say they don't have water to give. The Southwest says it can't save the Colorado River on its own.
February snowstorms brought some relief to parched landscapes in the Colorado River Basin, but the river’s reservoirs are less than half full heading into a spring runoff season that is expected to be ...
The pilot program has paid water users — mostly farmers and ranchers — in the four states in the Colorado River’s Upper Basin to voluntarily use less river water than their water rights allow.
The Colorado Basin River Forecast Center attributes the decline to poor precipitation above the reservoir, which fell to 69 percent of normal from January 1–15. Snowpack conditions, crucial for ...
In October, Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists were conducting a routine fish survey on the Colorado River when they made an extremely rare catch. The crews netted not one, but three ...
“It’s not a pretty picture, January’s precipitation,” said Cody Moser, a senior hydrologist at the Colorado Basin River Forecast Center. The drought across much of the mountain west ...
Colorado pikeminnow have evolved in the Colorado River basin for the past 3 million years, tracing back to a time when wooly mammoths also roamed Earth. The species has been known by many ...