Competing priorities, outsized demands and the federal government's retreat from a threatened deadline stymied a deal last summer on how to drastically reduce water use from the parched Colorado ...

The Colorado River is in crisis and it is a shared resource ... Kightlinger said Congress can be an important player in talks about the future of the river. “They can hold hearings,” he ...

The federal government has put up $4 billion for drought relief, and Colorado River users have submitted ... frustration that reared its head during talks. Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton ...

The Colorado River is in crisis and it is a shared resource ... Kightlinger said Congress can be an important player in talks about the river’s future. “They can hold hearings,” he said ...

“The challenges we had this summer were significant challenges, they truly were,” Chris Harris, executive director of the Colorado River Board ... its head during talks. Reclamation ...

Senators from the seven Western states in the Colorado River basin have been quietly meeting “for about a year,” to facilitate difficult discussions between the states over the future of the river.