Deep below the surface of the ground in one of the driest parts of the country, there is a looming problem: The water is ...

The Colorado River Basin lost an alarming amount of groundwater over the past 20 years, a new study found. Nearly 28 million acre-feet of water has been depleted from the region, nearly the volume of ...

— Most of the total water losses occurred in the drier Lower Colorado River basin. It lost 20.7 million acre-feet of ...

A map from the U.S. Department of ... “There are extremely dry conditions across the Lower Colorado River Basin this winter,” Moser said. Forecasters now expect runoff into Lake Powell to ...

The Department of the Interior announced an initial $700 million investment for long-term water conservation projects across the Lower Colorado River Basin. This investment – which has the ...

The seven states that use water from the Colorado River — Arizona, California and Nevada comprise the Lower Basin — have just over a month left to agree on how the nation’s two largest reservoirs ...

John Entsminger, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, stressed to colleagues during the Colorado River Water Users ... the conference led by Lower Basin states — Nevada ...

The Colorado River Basin is divided into two regions: Lower Basin states are Nevada, Arizona and California; Upper Basin states are Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. The $1.2 billion plan in ...

The Colorado River basin has lost huge volumes of groundwater over the past two decades according to a new report from ...