The Latest Breaking News from the Colorado River

The Rio Grande is one of the longest rivers in North America, running some 1,900 miles (3,060 kilometers) from the Colorado Rockies southeast to the Gulf of Mexico. It provides fresh water for seven U.S. and Mexican states, and forms the border between Texas and Mexico, where it is known…

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

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…

Drought in Mexico and depleting water supply in the Colorado River has led to a scarcity in red jalapeños, the key ingredient

A Supreme Court ruling this week will make it harder for the Navajo Nation to get water from the Colorado River

Tribe says 1800s treaty creates obligation for US to secure water acces

Native American tribe argued federal government had not fulfilled obligations in battle over dwindling water supplies

Indigenous community had sought to assess water needs amid historic drought in the Colorado River Basin.