This story is the first part of a four-part series about three groundwater basins in Colorado. It was originally published by ...

As Colorado River states race to finish a deal, water users face a resource altered by drought and climate change.

If ever proof was needed for the Western adage that “whiskey is for drinkin’, water is for fightin’,” one has only to look at ...

This article on the wilderness areas along the Buffalo National River is the eighth in a series commemorating the 40th ...

The saga of the Klamath provokes a more fundamental, yet often ignored, set of questions: What is a river for? Irrigation?

After recent flooding tragedies in Texas, New Mexico and North Carolina, St. Johns River Water Management District officials say that won't happen here.

Negotiators from seven Colorado River basin states in recent weeks have said they're discussing a plan that would base the amount of water released from Lake Mead and Lake Powell on the river's flows.

That, they say, is clearly spelled out in the Colorado River Compact signed a century ago. But the Upper Basin disagrees, saying it can’t provide what the river doesn’t produce.

In the course of the work, scientists modeled the future changes of the Colorado basin and found that if nothing is done, the annual amount of water in the river will be reduced by 11 percent.