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Huge contributions could be required from northern states under some scenarios, which they have balked at for months.
The Colorado River Basin very well could get a few wet years, he said. “We might even get a wet decade. But, boy, the long-term warming and drying trend seems super clear to me,” Udall said.
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.
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 United States Environmental Protection Agency has more broadly reported: "Colorado's climate is changing. Most of the state has warmed one or two degrees (F) in the last century. Throughout the western United States, heat waves are becoming more common, snow is melting earlier in spring, and less water flows through the Colorado River.
Colorado River Delta today, showing inflows mostly from the Hardy River and other Mexican tributaries. An example of the fast deposition rate of Colorado River sediment is found in Lake Mead itself, where, before the completion of Glen Canyon Dam, ten percent of its storage was already compromised by sediment. When Lake Powell levels drop ...
The seven U.S. states that draw water from the Colorado River basin are suggesting new ways to determine how the increasingly scarce resource is divvied up when the river can't provide what it ...
The high quality River Watch data is currently utilized by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's Water Quality Control Commission, [5] Colorado Parks and Wildlife, and many grassroots level watershed groups in the state for the management of Colorado’s waters.