The Latest Breaking News from Colorado River

In an unprecedented deal, a private company purchased land in a tiny Arizona town – and sold its water rights to a suburb 200 miles away

Imperial Irrigation District delays water conservation program to protect desert pupfish and address water scarcity in the Colorado River region.

Federal officials say that conditions have improved on the Colorado River to the point that a three-state plan to reduce water use should keep the river basin on stable footing for several years

The National Park Service will renew efforts to rid an area of the Colorado River in northern Arizona of invasive fish with a chemical treatment

Federal officials this week are expected to ease water cuts for Western states reliant on the Colorado River next year

Volume of water lost equal to Lake Mead, US’s largest reservoir, or enough water to fill around 15bn Olympic-sized pools, study finds

A senior Interior Department official who has played a key role in negotiations over the shrinking Colorado River will leave her job next month

The serene beauty of the Colorado River belies an ecosystem that is forever changed. I met the scientists fighting for its future

Among the last cities to receive water from the shrinking Colorado River, Tijuana is staring down a water crisis driven by problems closer to home: the city’s frenetic growth, its aging and inefficient infrastructure and successive governments that have done little to prepare the city for growing water scarcity in…