A dry January across Colorado and the rest of the Rocky Mountain West has created a dichotomy of water haves and have-nots.

Federal forecasts reveal that water flows into Lake ... River Basin, supporting more than 40 million people across seven states and Mexico. It funnels water directly downstream to Lake Mead ...

Extreme drought has returned to Utah for the first time in nearly two years, but a weekend storm could help parts of the ...

The immense concrete structure – which confines Lake ... map noting the dam's dedication date: Sept. 30, 1935. Bronze seals of the seven states that are home to the Colorado River Basin are ...

Some 20 million people depend for much of their water on Lake Mead, which holds 32 cubic kilometers ... For example, Australia’s Great Artesian Basin contains almost a thousand times as much ...

This week in The Roundup, Heather Sackett and Eleanor Bennett help us understand emerging environmental and social factors ...

Water managers aren’t in for the exceptional year they had hoped for, with snowpack across the West underperforming in the ...

Latest estimates place the Upper Colorado River Basin snowpack at just 83 percent of the historic median for this time of year.

Scientists studying the volcanic landscape of the Cascade Range found that an aquifer has nearly three times as much water as ...

In the Upper Colorado River Basin, where the majority of the flow into Lake Mead originates, snowpack sits at 85 percent of the historic median — a noticeable decline from January numbers that ...