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The Colorado River, which provides water for about 15% of our country’s agriculture, is shrinking, and the current agreement that divvies up the water usage ends in 2026.
The Colorado River Upper Basin, comprised of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico, and the Lower Basin, made up of California, Arizona and Nevada, have been quarreling for months over seemingly ...
The Biden administration has announced several options for new long-term rules for managing the Colorado River's overburdened water supply. Here, Hoover Dam stands in front of Lake Mead in May 2022.
There's no shortage of plans to protect the water source that 40 million people rely on, but states are battling over who should bear the brunt of the sacrifice.
The Colorado River (Spanish: Río Colorado) is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and in northern Mexico. The 1,450-mile-long (2,330 km) river, the 5th longest in the United States, drains an expansive, arid watershed that encompasses parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states.
The Colorado River has been named America's Most Endangered River seven times.. America's Most Endangered Rivers is a list of threatened rivers in the United States compiled by the nonprofit group American Rivers.
The river's first diversion is here at its headwater. The Grand Ditch redirects water from the Never Summer Mountains, which would have flowed into the Colorado River, to instead flow across the divide through La Poudre Pass to irrigate farmland to the east. Near the source of the Colorado River in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
Fresh off a phenomenal winter snowpack, water levels on the Colorado River are going up for the first time in years.. As a result, federal officials will announce this week that they are easing ...