The Upper Colorado River Commission has issued a statement advocating that every state in the Colorado River Basin works for a practical, clear-eyed approach to water management following last month's ...

The compact states that its major purpose is “for the equitable division and apportionment” of Colorado River water uses between the Upper Basin (Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming ...

Rajagopalan, & E. Zagona (2012). “Colorado River Basin Hydroclimatic Variability,” Journal of Climate, 25 (2), 4389–4403. Abstract: An analysis of annual hydroclimatic variability in the Upper ...

Utah will give farmers an incentive to leave fields fallow — then hopes to get "credit" for the saved water, in negotiations ...

Upper Basin states argue they don’t have the legal authority to significantly reduce flows to water users on their own under the 1922 Colorado River Compact, unlike Lower Basin states.

One of the biggest sticking points between the two basins is whether or not Upper Basin states should absorb mandatory water cuts during dry years, despite using significantly less than their 7.5 ...