The Colorado River Basin covers more than 246,000 square miles in seven states. It's governed by the Colorado River Compact , a century-old agreement allocating water to the states and Mexico ...

State water leaders appear to be coalescing behind a new proposal for sharing the Colorado River after talks were stuck in a ...

The Trump administration has denied Mexico's request for Colorado River water for Tijuana — the first such denial in 81 years — alleging the country has broken the terms of a water agreement.

In addition to the seven states along the Colorado River, Native American tribes have been involved in the negotiations over the future of the water source for 40 million people.

The Colorado River Water Users Association concluded its three-day conference with a focus on providing conservation solutions to its members, including Mexico and 30 different Native American tribes.

The treaties that divided the river among seven states and Mexico allocated 7.5 million acre-feet of water per year for states in the river’s upper basin, including Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and ...

COLORADO RIVER DELTA, Mexico — For half a century, the Colorado River’s great dams and the 30 million people who siphon water from the reservoirs behind them have effectively killed ...

The U.S. Department of State said on Thursday that the United States will for the first time deny a non-treaty request by Mexico for a special delivery channel for Colorado River water to be ...

Since 1974, the seven Colorado River basin states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — have coordinated efforts to implement salinity control in the waterway ...