Utah’s Demand Management Program compensates water users in the Colorado River Basin to temporarily and voluntarily send water downstream. Green River • Ranch manager Kent Nelson flipped open the cap...

Utah and other Upper Basin states shared water woes and plans for future drought actions during a meeting of the Upper Colorado River Commission. In a normal year, Ferron farmer Brooks Behling can fil...

Unlike Nevada, Utah doesn’t face any federally required cuts under a new plan for Lake Powell and Lake Mead. Utah and other Upper Basin states “are not required to contribute a drop” of their Colorado...

The federal government released its two-year operating plan for the Colorado River, including Lake Powell and Lake Mead. The Trump administration won’t force Utah and other Upper Basin states to cut t...

The Bureau of Reclamation released a massive document outlining possibilities for managing Lake Powell and Lake Mead. After years of analysis and stalled negotiations, the federal government last mont...

The Bureau of Reclamation released a 10-year framework for managing Lake Powell and Lake Mead, as states continue to negotiate. The federal government lowers the amount of water it may annually releas...

Total water stored in Lake Powell and Lake Mead drop to levels last seen before Lake Powell even existed. Lake Powell and Lake Mead hit a grim milestone this week. The combined storage in the nation’s...

The Bureau of Reclamation and Upper Basin states are collaborating to better monitor evaporation on Colorado River reservoirs upstream of Lake Powell. As hot temperatures sweep across Utah and water s...

Utah and other Colorado River states confront record low water supply as negotiations over the river remain at a standstill. Utah’s top official overseeing the Colorado River gave a serious warning al...

The Bullfrog Marina relocation will take another three to five weeks to complete. Titus Crawford spent four days calling Lake Powell boaters this spring. After a record low snowpack and off-the-charts...

Funding for drought mitigation from the Inflation Reduction Act has been held up for over a year. Federal funding for water conservation projects in Utah has been held up for over a year, but some of...

Boulder, Colo. • Colorado River experts and decision makers gathered in Boulder, Colorado this week to discuss the future of the water supply for 40 million people across the Southwest. At the registr...

The Bureau of Reclamation began filling Lake Powell in 1963, flooding narrow canyons that were once so lush with cottonwood trees that John Wesley Powell named the area Glen Canyon. The reservoir kept...

In canyons underwater just a few years ago, toads croak beside beaver dams and cottonwoods tower above newly formed streams. “We’re entering beaver land!” Zanna Stutz yelled joyfully. Stepping lightly...

Colorado River states continue to work towards a plan to deal with a shrinking water supply for 40 million people Utah and its neighbors in the Upper Colorado River Basin shared a resounding message o...

The feds are looking to Flaming Gorge to prevent a crisis at Glen Canyon Dam. A cream-colored band lines the orange sandstone walls that rise above the blue-green waters of Lake Powell. The so-called...

Utah and seven other states have until Feb. 14 to agree on how to share the drought-stricken water supply for 40 million people. Each negotiator drew a card from the deck. John Entsminger, from Nevada...

Despite recent storms, the outlook for Western snowpack remains dismal, forecasters say Snowpack in the mountains that feed the Colorado River, the water supply for 40 million people, is off to its wo...

Tensions hung over the annual Colorado River conference in Las Vegas as states continue to dig their heels in over how to manage the troubled waterway. Las Vegas • As Lake Powell sits at less than one...

States are in tense negotiations over the future of the drought-ridden river. What they decide will affect cities, tribes and farmers across Utah. Water from the Colorado River and its tributaries irr...

Current guidelines for the water supply for 40 million people expire at the end of 2026. Utah and the six other states that rely upon the Colorado River on Tuesday failed to reach an agreement on how...