The Colorado River lost another margin of safety in late spring 2026. Facing a snowpack season that failed to deliver, the ...

New proposal would cut water use by millions of acre-feet through 2028 as drought and low snowpack continue to push the ...

There’s a new plan on the table for managing the Colorado River after more than a year of deadlocked negotiations. Arizona, ...

Desert canyons in eastern Utah will be churning this spring with huge volumes of water in a desperate attempt to keep a ...

Colorado River states approve emergency Flaming Gorge releases as Lake Powell nears hydropower thresholds, signaling deeper ...

Widespread drought and fears of a power crisis forced the Interior Department to start sending billions of gallons of water from Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Colorado downstream to prop up Lake Powell.

The Bureau of Reclamation will add water to the nation's second-largest reservoir to help protect Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona.

Arizona, California and Nevada have proposed urgent water cuts to head off a deepening crisis on the Colorado River.

The federal government's move to slash releases of Colorado River water from Lake Powell to Lake Mead takes the region one ...

With a historic drought hitting the Colorado River basin, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is making preparations to slow releases from the river’s largest reservoir while increasing withdrawals from an ...

Glen Canyon Dam sits wedged into a sandstone canyon in northern Arizona, and right now the reservoir behind it is running dangerously thin. As of late May 2026, Lake Powell’s surface elevation stands ...

The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Lake Powell faces record lows due to a warm winter and drought, with Flaming Gorge potentially providing relief.