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USGS scientists from the Rocky Mountain and Southwest Regions and beyond will participate in a USGS Open House held in Albuquerque at the Southwest... A new study projects that a hot and dry future climate may lead to a 29% decline in Upper Colorado River Basin “baseflow” at the basin outlet by the... Science.
Map of the Colorado River Basin in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
The Colorado River is a critical resource in the West, because seven basin states (Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming) depend on it for water supply, hydropower production, recreation, fish and wildlife habitat, and other benefits.
Its drainage basin covers 246,000 square miles (637,000 square kilometres) and includes parts of seven states—Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and California. For 17 miles the river forms the international boundary between the U.S. state of Arizona and Mexico.
Snowpack Sublimation - Measurements and Modeling in the Colorado River Basin Snow is an essential resource in the western United States (U.S.), providing water for drinking, irrigation, industry, energy production, and ecosystems across much of the region.
Colorado River Basin Map. Redesigned in 2017, this beautiful map depicts the seven Western states that share the Colorado River with Mexico. The Colorado River supplies water to nearly 40 million people in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming and Mexico. Text on this beautiful, 24×36-inch map, which is suitable for ...
Welcome to the Colorado River Basin, a landscape where every stream and wash eventually makes its way to the Colorado. Covering seven states in the U.S., two in Mexico and the lands of more than thirty tribes, this arid region is home to 40 million people that rely on its water every day.
The river is separated into the Upper Basin which is high elevation, narrow valleys, and a short growing season where water naturally flows into the river above Lee Ferry, and the Lower Basin which is characterized with lower elevation, wide basins (Grand Canyon), and long growing seasons with water flowing into the river from below Lee Ferry ...
The Colorado River Basin. The Colorado River is often referred to as the life-blood of the American Southwest. This legendary river begins both as snowmelt at its headwaters in mountainous northern Colorado, and as the origin of the Green River in the Wind River Range of Wyoming; then winds through seven states and approximately 1,400 miles of ...
Map: Colorado River Basin. This lifeline in the desert has made human survival possible, fed much of the United States, and helped fuel a regional economy that would, by some accounts, be the fifth-largest in the world if the Colorado River Basin were a separate nation.