There are four key physical characteristics that have an impact on the Colorado River basin.

The Colorado River Basin is divided into upper and lower portions. It provides water to the Colorado River, a water source that serves 40 million people over seven states in the southwestern ...

Six key watersheds along the Colorado River have become increasingly vulnerable to drought and could be nearing a point of no return, a new study has found. These basins, located in Colorado’s ...

In the Colorado River Basin, declining water supply over the last century has increased pressure on water users and created significant challenges for meeting multiple competing demands. As the ...

The Colorado River Basin’s water delivery reliability has continued to degrade since deciding these 2007 operational guidelines due to the imbalance of growing demand and dwindling supply. The ...

This research applied and extended the concepts of Many Objective Robust Decision Making (MORDM) to develop a long-term planning framework in the Colorado River Basin (CRB) that identifies and ...

In 2021, drought led Lake Powell to unprecedented lows, prompting the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to declare the first-ever water shortage in the Upper Colorado River Basin. The study shows that ...

Learn about physical characteristics of the Colorado River basin, including climate, rock type, soils, vegetation and river flow. Need for water management Water management is needed on the ...

Those states get their water primarily from stream flow, rather than from giant reservoirs like in the lower basin states. Erin Schaff/The New York Times So far the Colorado River states have ...

indicating that a unified front on how to update expiring operating guidelines is not in the basin’s near future. At the second day of the Colorado River Water Users Association conference ...

Snowpack in the upper Colorado River basin is slightly less than normal for this time of year, meaning Arizona could see sustained water cuts through 2026. Though trends could change through the ...

As of Thursday, the entirety of the Upper Colorado River Basin sat at 95 percent of a historical median, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service.