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Water negotiators, river enthusiasts, Native tribes and lots of lawyers convened at the University of Colorado Law School on Thursday to take stock of the future of the dwindling Colorado River.

Aubrey Bettencourt will likely be nominated to run the Bureau of Reclamation, the top federal agency on the Colorado River, at a tense time for negotiations about sharing the water supply.

Water experts are calling for urgent changes at Lake Powell and Lake Mead, as a dry winter could send reservoir levels dangerously low.

The City of Denver along with other Colorado and Idaho counties have passed moratoriums on data center development. Cheyenne, Wyoming, opted to speed ahead.

A team of researchers at Arizona State University is building models to track the amount of water in snow, soils and streams.

During the pause, city staff would have studied five questions: the impacts of data centers on the environment, electricity rates, the power grid, water usage, and any other factors related to the health, safety, and welfare of Cheyenne’s residents.

Irrigation needs downstream summon steady flows out of Jackson Lake Dam, but could mean a low-tide fall.

A new proposal for sharing Colorado River water would bring negotiators together every couple of years. That could create uncertainty and get in the way of big solutions for the future.

Storms across the Western U.S. are dumping more rain in shorter bursts than in decades past. But according to new research, that doesn’t necessarily mean landscapes are holding onto more water.

The town of Cave Creek in Arizona is on the front lines of the Colorado River crisis. It will get help from Phoenix before working on long-term fixes.