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The plan to protect the Colorado River still isn’t done. Now what?

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Arizona will miss deadline for Colorado River drought plan that impacts water for millions, officials say

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Arizona joins Colorado River drought plan just before federal deadline in effort to keep reservoirs from draining too low

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Colorado, 5 other Western states are against a deadline for Colorado River drought plan

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Tracking the Colorado River explains why it never quite makes it to the Sea of Cortez

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Arizona lawmakers under pressure to approve seven-state Colorado River drought plan before federal deadline

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Colorado, desperate for snow, explores new takes on the old idea of cloud seeding

The state, prompted by new research, looks to the skies as part of a multi-part plan to boost snowpack

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Colorado, southwestern U.S. states now have a Jan. 31 deadline for drought deal

Water users from Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming should have had a pact to sign at an annual water users' conference this week in Las Vegas. They didn't.

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“We all know the clock is ticking”: Colorado, other western states to meet at deadline on Colorado River drought plan

Arizona has been the holdout, with farmers, cities, Indian tribes and lawmakers in the state set to be first to feel the pinch still negotiating how to deal with water cutback

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Plan to slow creeping Colorado River crisis could drain more water from Blue Mesa, Flaming Gorge reservoirs

Historic proposal to create a conservation bank of water in Lake Powell fed by reservoirs in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico would protect the withering Powell and requires approval of eight states and the federal government

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Razorback sucker is the latest rare Colorado River fish to make it back from the brink of extinction

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Arizona officials look to reach Colorado River drought deal on water-use cutbacks

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“Post-traumatic growth” for five blind veterans kayaking the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon

"We showed what truly could be done when we worked together.”

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Amid drought, a changing climate and population growth, can Colorado’s unique water law system survive?

A Q&A with former Colorado Supreme Court Justice Gregory Hobbs, one of the state’s top water experts