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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 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
The Grand Canyon section of the Colorado River, like several other big-water Western rivers, uses a rapids scale developed by Otis R. Marston of 1–10 for rapids, 10 being the most difficult. The International Scale of River Difficulty , which classifies rapids from class I to VI, is more common elsewhere in the US and internationally.
A new global analysis finds U.S. states along the Colorado River are under extremely high water stress. The region is grappling with how to reduce water use.
"Six out the seven states within the Colorado River Compact rank in the top 10 of most water stressed states in the United States." The Atlas finds that across the globe, 25 countries experience ...
Hostility and mistrust are at the heart of the inability of California and six other states to reach an agreement on the Colorado River. Column: The fight over the Colorado River is a 100-year-old ...
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 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 ...