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States that rely on the Colorado River are at an impasse in talks on rules to address water shortages. California, Arizona and Nevada are at odds with other states.

Two groups of states in the Colorado River Basin propose competing long-term plans for addressing chronic water shortages and adapting to climate change.

California, Arizona and Nevada would cut 20% when reservoir levels drop. But other states have more aggressive plans. The federal govenrment will decide.

Conservation measures and a wetter winter have improved the river's health, but long-term challenges remain.

LAS VEGAS — Known around the world as an oasis of overindulgence, the desert city of Las Vegas has emerged as a surprising model of austerity and prudence when it comes to water. Some 2.3 million people live in the arid Las Vegas Valley, and 40 million tourists are drawn each year to its giant casin...

If approved, the "worst case scenario" plan would make Nevada the first state to give a water agency legal jurisdiction over the amount of residential use.

Ornamental lawns are banned in Las Vegas, the size of new swimming pools is capped and much of the water used in homes is sent down a wash to be recycled...

Colorado River reservoirs have fallen to alarming levels, prompting growing calls for urgent action to cut water use in seven states.

Colorado River reservoirs have fallen to alarming levels, prompting growing calls for urgent action to cut water use in seven states.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Key questions resurfaced Thursday at a conference of Colorado River water administrators and users from seven U.S. states, Native American tribes and Mexico who are served by the shrinking river stricken by drought and climate change.

The Colorado River's largest reservoirs stand nearly three-quarters empty, and federal officials now say there is a real danger the reservoirs could drop so low that water would no longer flow past Hoover Dam in two years.

Lake Mead, a federal park as well as the country's largest reservoir, has unveiled yet more secrets as human remains were discovered at Swim Beach on Saturday,

Out west, the water wars are getting fuel from every which way.

As the Colorado River water shortage worsens, major cutbacks are needed to reduce most perilous risks, a federal official tells senators.

As the Colorado River water shortage worsens, major cutbacks are needed to reduce most perilous risks, a federal official tells senators.

Only days after a body was discovered in a metal barrel on the shore of the lake, a second set of human remains has been found at Lake Mead

Lake Mead's plummeting water level has exposed one of the reservoir's original water intake valves for the first time, officials say.

Hundreds of Native Americans were massacred in Nevada's Bahsahwahbee Valley in the 1800s. Now, as three tribes push for the site to become a national monument, they see a chance to tell their own story.

LAS VEGAS — The Nevada Assembly on Monday approved a wide-ranging water conservation bill that would allow the Southern Nevada Water Authority to limit residential water use in Las Vegas if Lake Mead's levels plummet.

The proposal came in a closed-door meeting between states that was focused on achieving unprecedented water cuts to save the Colorado River -- a system that overall provides water and electricity to more than 40 million people in the West -- people familiar with the talks told CNN.