Death of the Colorado River
November 24th 2010 01:50
The future of the Colorado is uncertain, leaving the water source and the cultures along its shores in danger.
The Colorado River is a river in the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately 1,450 miles (2,330 km) long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. The natural course of the river flows from the Continental Divide at La Poudre Pass in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, into the Gulf of California between the Baja California peninsula and mainland Mexico. Large irrigation diversions for California's Imperial Valley through the All-American Canal, and to a much lesser extent irrigation diversions for Arizona, have dewatered the lower course of the river below Yuma, Arizona, resulting in it no longer consistently reaching the Gulf of California.
As reported on the Global Post, the Colorado River is a shell of its former self; a victim of overpopulation, pollution, damming, climate change and apathy.
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Lake Meade, a reservoir fed by the Colorado, has seen its water level drop more than 100 feet in recent years as a result of drought, increased agricultural use, a booming Las Vegas population and climate change.
Sitting on her family's failing farm, a grandmother is comforted by her daughter in Sonora, Mexico. The farm, with its this cows and now arid land, sits only yards from where the Colorado River once ran.
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia page for Colorado River.
The Colorado River is a river in the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately 1,450 miles (2,330 km) long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. The natural course of the river flows from the Continental Divide at La Poudre Pass in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, into the Gulf of California between the Baja California peninsula and mainland Mexico. Large irrigation diversions for California's Imperial Valley through the All-American Canal, and to a much lesser extent irrigation diversions for Arizona, have dewatered the lower course of the river below Yuma, Arizona, resulting in it no longer consistently reaching the Gulf of California.
As reported on the Global Post, the Colorado River is a shell of its former self; a victim of overpopulation, pollution, damming, climate change and apathy.
Click on the link above to read the full article.
Lake Meade, a reservoir fed by the Colorado, has seen its water level drop more than 100 feet in recent years as a result of drought, increased agricultural use, a booming Las Vegas population and climate change.
Sitting on her family's failing farm, a grandmother is comforted by her daughter in Sonora, Mexico. The farm, with its this cows and now arid land, sits only yards from where the Colorado River once ran.
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia page for Colorado River.
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