Once one of the most dependent on the Colorado River, San Diego now may have water to sell to states that are seeing their supplies from the shrinking river cut.
A drone view shows the Carlsbad desalination plant's intake lagoon on the right and the discharge canal on the left, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, in Carlsbad, Calif.
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Three western U.S. states have announced a new two-year deal to stabilize the Colorado River. California, Nevada and Arizona say…
A $40 billion plan proposes massive desalination plants to save the Colorado River, but critics call it \
Crunch time has come for communities that rely on water from the Colorado River. California, Arizona, and Nevada will be directly…
Approximately 40 million people across the West depend on the Colorado River for water every single day. But the region could…
Drought, decades of overuse, and flawed planning are pushing water systems across the American Southwest toward severe shortages…
Nearly three-quarters of the water in the Colorado River system is used for irrigation.
