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The Upper Basin covers only 45 percent of the land area of the Colorado River Basin, but contributes 92 percent of the runoff. [57] The entire eastern boundary of the Colorado River Basin runs along the North American Continental Divide and is defined largely by the Rocky Mountains and the Rio Grande Basin.
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Map showing the Colorado River basin. The Colorado River is a major river of the western United States and northwest Mexico in North America. Its headwaters are in the Rocky Mountains where La Poudre Pass Lake is its source.
The analysis by researchers with the World Resources Institute found that all seven states that rely on the Colorado River face high or extremely high water stress.
The Colorado runs 1,450 mi (2,330 km) from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of California, draining parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states. The river system is one of the most heavily developed in the world, with fifteen dams on the main stem of the Colorado [citation needed] and hundreds more on tributaries.
Seven Western states are starting to plot a future for how much water they’ll draw from the dwindling Colorado River in a warmer, drier world. They just can’t agree.
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 ...