"If we lose power at Glen Canyon and Hoover Dam, that's a big problem for the West," a Nevada water official said.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colorado River water flows in the Central Arizona Project aqueduct beside a neighborhood in Phoenix. (Kelvin Kuo / Los Angeles ...

Western Slope elected officials, water managers, engineers, and conservationists met in Grand Junction on Friday, Oct. 3, all focused on one thing: the uncertain future of the Colorado River. “Water ...

There’s around a year left for the seven states utilizing Colorado River water to finalize new rules on how to manage it, but the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s Colby Pellegrino said Thursday ...

What was once a mighty river flowing from Colorado through the Grand Canyon all the way down to the Gulf of California in Mexico has been reduced to a trickle that barely reaches the ocean. Experts ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Colorado River is in crisis. The seven basin states just blew through a heavily anticipated deadline to announce a new deal on how they would divide up a ...

The Colorado River’s massive reservoirs are now so depleted that another dry year could send them plunging to dangerously low levels, a group of prominent scholars warns in a new analysis. The ...