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Arizona Department of Water Resources

Colorado River Negotiators Are Nearly Out of Time and Snowpack

With another federal deadline only weeks away and record-low snowfall further drying out the watershed, states have begun talking about whether they are prepared for litigation.

By Jake Bolster, Wyatt Myskow

Cars drive over the Central Arizona Canal, which delivers Colorado River water to Central and Southern Arizona, on Dec. 19, 2025. Credit: Kayla Bartkowski/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
Tourists visit the South Rim of the Grand Canyon on Nov. 1, 2022. The Colorado River flows through the literal giant chasm in Arizona. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

Colorado River States Are Separated by a ‘Giant Chasm’ in Negotiations

By Alex Hager, KUNC

A groundwater well is used to irrigate a Cochise County nut orchard in rural Arizona. on March 1, 2022. Credit: Aydali Campa/Inside Climate News

A Rural Arizona Community May Soon Have a State Government Fix For Its Drying Wells

By Wyatt Myskow

Melissa (left) and Steve Fry look out at the proposed mine site in the Galiuro Mountains outside Mammoth, Arizona, on March 14. Credit: Michael McKisson/Arizona Luminaria

Arizona Residents Fear What the State’s Mining Boom Will Do to Their Water

By Wyatt Myskow

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