Hydrologists say that hotter temperatures have been drying out soils and vegetation in the west, leading to less water ...

As negotiations over the Colorado River allocation heat up, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs urges other states to take more cuts ...

recalled the importance of the La Plata Basin, “considered one of the most important river basins in the world with great economic, social and cultural impact for the nearly 70 million citizens ...

The Colorado River Basin provides water for more than 40 million people and fuels hydropower resources in seven U.S. states.

National water conservation groups filed a legal petition Tuesday asking the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to stop downstream ...

As Colorado and other Basin states relying on the shrinking Colorado River work to reduce water use, new data showed just how ...

In recent years, California and Arizona cut back their use dramatically. However, a recent paper by water journalist and ...

K. Nowak, M. Hoerling, B. Rajagopalan, & E. Zagona (2012). “Colorado River Basin Hydroclimatic Variability,” Journal of Climate, 25 (2), 4389–4403. Abstract: An analysis of annual hydroclimatic ...

Baker, S. A., Wood, A. W., Rajagopalan, B., Prairie, J., Jerla, C., Zagona, E., Butler, R. A., Smith, R. (2022). "The Colorado River Basin Operational Prediction ...