Colorado River reservoirs hit record lows as states deadlock on water cuts

Millions of residents across seven Western states face potential water restrictions, higher costs, and agricultural impacts affecting livelihoods and food security.

Along the spine of the American West, the Colorado River — long treated as an inexhaustible promise — is revealing the limits of that promise in the starkest possible terms. Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the twin pillars of a water system built to sustain millions, have sunk to historic lows, and seven states bound by a century-old compact cannot agree on how to share what remains. What was once a political negotiation has become a reckoning, with federal intervention now poised to settle by mandate what cooperation could not resolve. The crisis asks a question older than any reservoir: who bears

Colorado River reservoirs hit record lows as states deadlock on water cuts

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