Today the river runs vodka clear from the base of the dam. But the silt never ceased arriving in Lake Powell, the reservoir ...
A group of congress members from Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, California and Arizona is gathering to talk about the ...
Competing priorities, outsized demands and the federal government's retreat from a threatened deadline stymied a deal last summer on how to drastically reduce water use from the parched Colorado ...
The Colorado River is in crisis and it is a shared resource ... Kightlinger said Congress can be an important player in talks about the future of the river. “They can hold hearings,” he ...
Key FactsThe Great Basin gopher snake is a subspecies of the northern pine snake. It is impressively adaptable in terms of ...
“The challenges we had this summer were significant challenges, they truly were,” Chris Harris, executive director of the Colorado River Board ... its head during talks. Reclamation ...
Senators from the seven Western states in the Colorado River basin have been quietly meeting “for about a year,” to facilitate difficult discussions between the states over the future of the river.
It’s difficult to fathom how the Colorado River could possibly carve the mile-deep chasm that is the Grand Canyon. But if one thinks of the river as a flume of liquid sandpaper rubbing the land ...
