Tribes stake their claim on the Colorado River, and help conserve it

Tribes across the West have worked with states to protect the Colorado River and conserve enough water to raise elevations in ...
University of Colorado Boulder

Colorado River Continues to Bring Unlikely Parties Together at CRWUA

The closing act of CRWUA 2025 was an orderly (and familiar) report from each of the basin states’ principal negotiators that ...
The Durango Herald

Colorado River Program’s new director ‘cautiously hopeful’ about interstate negotiations

Future water management cannot be organized how it is presently or as it was in the past, said Celene Hawkins, Durango resident and The Nature Conservancy’s new Colorado River Program director. The ...
Colorado Public Radio

Why does the Colorado River seem to vanish at a certain point in Glenwood Canyon?

The Colorado River is starting to swell with spring runoff, but just a few months ago, Avi Stopper clocked a gap in the Western United States' most important water supply. Stopper was driving back to ...
The Denver Post

Amid ‘a transparency desert,’ states look likely to blow past Colorado River deadline. What’s next?

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Negotiators tasked with hammering out the future of the shrinking Colorado River — and the 40 million people who rely on it — are once again careening toward ...
Colorado Public Radio

What’s holding up the Colorado River negotiations? Experts break down the sticking points.

Seven states in the Colorado River Basin are days away from a Nov. 11 deadline to hash out a rough idea of how the water supply for 40 million people will be managed starting in fall 2026. And they’re ...
Summit County

The Colorado River is salty. But where does salinity come from, and what’s being done about it?

Of all the challenges facing the Colorado River, there’s at least one that all stakeholders are working on collaboratively, not competitively — salinity. Since 1974, the seven Colorado River basin ...
Vail Daily

Colorado boaters celebrate New Year’s Day on the river

Glenwood Springs kayaker Michael Ball reached the end of his New Year’s Day paddling run on Thursday and realized he had ...
USA Today

The Colorado River used to be predictable as a water supply. What happens when it's not?

On the headwaters of the Colorado River, water managers fear they are on the brink of a system failure as drought and climate change rewrite the old rules. Winter snowpack is no longer a reliable ...
The Denver Post

Current operation guidelines for the Colorado River, which provides water to 40 million, expire at end of 2026

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Concerningly low amounts of water are flowing from Rocky Mountain snowpack this spring, a summer of drought looms across swaths of the West, and the ...