The Colorado River’s Lower Basin states published a proposal Wednesday for the watershed’s long-term operations, just hours after their Upper Basin peers unveiled a rival offer — and as ...

LAS VEGAS — Representatives from two Lower Basin states on the Colorado River have said they would finally address something that the Upper basin states, including Colorado, have long pressed them to ...

Although it’s true that much of the country’s winter produce, especially lettuce, comes from lower basin farmers, the No. 1 thing grown with Colorado River water is forage crops: alfalfa and ...

In two separate proposals for how the nation’s two largest reservoirs should be managed, the upper and lower Colorado River basin states agree on a couple things, but can’t find common ground ...

In the coming weeks, federal officials must decide whether to impose cuts on the three lower Colorado River Basin states by either following the longstanding system of water-rights seniority or by ...

Lake Powell, in Glen Canyon National Park, is the link in the multistate system that feeds the Colorado River from the upper basin states to its lower basin counterparts. In its trip, the Colorado ...

Staff and board members from the Glenwood Springs-based Colorado River Water Conservation District, along with other water managers from across western Colorado, this month visited the lower basin ...