The 1922 Colorado River Compact, a foundational interstate agreement that informs the management of a river that serves 40 million people, did not settle Native American tribes’ water rights. Tribes ...

For years, members of the Walker River Paiute Tribe who depend on well water have been plagued by water scarcity, brought on by a lack of infrastructure and funding. Between aging pipes, pollutants ...

Despite a record snowpack that has kept the South Fork of the Tule River flowing at a steady clip, residents of the Tule River Reservation – who get 60% of their supplies directly from the river – ...

The Colorado River Indian Tribes of Arizona and California voted this month to give their namesake waterway the same legal rights as a person, saying the ‘living being’ deserves more protection while ...

A historic interstate, inter-governmental agreement is finally institutionalizing the much-needed practice of including the six Native American Tribes of the Upper Colorado River basin in Colorado ...

As I’ve followed the long-running negotiations over the Colorado River the last couple of years, very little progress has been made in transforming the century-old system of managing the river’s ...