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Arizona

Officials warn of a bleak Colorado River future as deadline nears

  • Caitlin Sievers

The future of the Colorado River is looking bleak, and officials in the seven states that depend on its water say they’re happy to negotiate — but with current use rules expiring at the end of the year, compromise seems unlikely. During a more than two-hour PBS special on Wednesday, officials from the Upper and […]

Colorado

Feds to impose new cuts on lower Colorado River states amid climate-fueled megadrought

  • Chase Woodruff

The federal government on Friday formalized a set of guidelines for managing water use in the Colorado River Basin over the next decade, if Colorado and six other Western states can’t come to an agreement on how to deal with declining flows caused in large part by climate change. “The Department has a responsibility to […]