While state and federal officials, farmers and the heads of Native American tribes, work intensely to conserve water from the drying Colorado River one term appears more often than probably any other: ...

Green Mountain Reservoir, one of the biggest reservoirs in Summit County, is low this summer, but it’s not as low as in previous drought years. The reservoir is currently storing about 101,000 ...

CORRECTION: This story has been updated to reflect the average amount of water used by California families, about one-third of an acre-foot, based on a statewide average. California, Arizona and ...

State water authorities estimated that 3.8 million acre-feet of water went into depleted underground reservoirs this year after a record winter of rain and snow. That’s about how much water more than ...

The seven Colorado River basin states have a plan to temporarily stabilize Lake Powell. It contains some pain and not a lot of gain. Yet no one balked. And that’s a win. That should signal how dire ...

Jul. 5—Isabella Lake exceeded 500,000 acre-feet of water storage during the holiday weekend for the first time in nearly two decades. By midday Wednesday, the water level in the lake had continued to ...