There is a slow-motion catastrophe unfolding across the American West, and most people living inside its shadow don't fully realize it yet. The Colorado River, a 1,450-mile lifeline carved through ...
The states along the Colorado River are proving the truth of the famous adage often attributed to Mark Twain: "Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over." At the end of the year, the current ...
High in the Rocky Mountains, spring-fed streams and ponds have vanished, leaving patches of cracked mud in what were once spongy meadows. This year has been so extremely warm and arid that the ...
Concerningly low amounts of water are flowing from the Rocky Mountain snowpack this spring, a summer of drought looms across swaths of the West, and the negotiators tasked with devising a sustainable ...
The Colorado has been struggling for decades. This summer could bring it to the brink, threatening endangered wildlife and communities. There is not enough water flowing in the Colorado River to meet ...