For each of the past three years, the United States Bureau of Reclamation, which operates the major reservoirs on the Colorado River, has announced a new “record low” water elevation in Lake Mead.

The bureau also maintains 53 hydroelectric plants in the United States. Burman, a University of Arizona law-school graduate, previously worked for the bureau, a division of the U.S. Department of ...

Ted Cooke helped Arizona and the Central Arizona Project strike previous deals on the Colorado River. Now he's tasked with shepherding a new one.

What To Know. Tucson, Arizona, secured $86.7 million from the Bureau of Reclamation to construct an advanced water purification facility. The agreement, part of a broader $257.6 million federal ...

Water could soon return to another dry stretch of the Santa Cruz River, thanks to an effort by Pima County and others to use ...

For now, the SEIS is more a warning to the Lower Basin States (California, Arizona, Nevada) about what it could do if a mutual agreement is not reached. A 1963 Supreme Court ruling in Arizona v.