The Times podcast: Colorado River in Crisis, Pt. 6: The End
1 year, 11 months ago

The Times podcast: Colorado River in Crisis, Pt. 6: The End

LA Times  

Conservationist Mateo Sanchez uses a net to collect specimens in a Colorado River Delta estuary. The flow is part of a recent amendment to the Colorado River Compact that allots river water for restoration, conservation and scientific efforts in Mexico. In the final episode of our Colorado River series, we travel to the Colorado River Delta to see what’s happening. Host: Gustavo Arellano Guests: L.A. Times water reporter Ian James More reading: A pulse of water revives the dry Colorado River Delta The river’s end: Amid Colorado water cuts, Mexico seeks to restore its lost oasis Listen to our special Colorado River series here

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‘We can do better’: Western states divided over long-term plans for Colorado River water
10 months, 1 week ago

‘We can do better’: Western states divided over long-term plans for Colorado River water

LA Times  

With climate change compounding the strains on the Colorado River, seven Western states are starting to consider long-term plans for reducing water use to prevent the river’s reservoirs from reaching critically low levels in the years to come. In one camp, the three states in the river’s lower basin — California, Arizona and Nevada — say their approach would share …

Q&A: Colorado River crisis brings ‘very dry’ reality to US West
1 year, 11 months ago

Q&A: Colorado River crisis brings ‘very dry’ reality to US West

Al Jazeera  

Sometimes referred to as the “American Nile”, the Colorado River is the lifeblood of the western United States, supplying drinking water to tens of millions of people across the region and in Mexico. Researchers have warned that without considerable reductions across the seven states that make up the Colorado River’s upper and lower basins, the two largest US reservoirs – …

California is alone in battle over Colorado River water cuts
1 year, 11 months ago

California is alone in battle over Colorado River water cuts

LA Times  

After a key deadline passed this week without an agreement on how to address the Colorado River’s crisis, California is now sharply at odds with six other states over how to take less water from the shrinking river. “California is trying to play its best card, which is, ‘The law is on our side.’ And the other six states are …

Los Angeles Times Series Examines ‘Colorado River in Crisis’
1 year, 11 months ago

Los Angeles Times Series Examines ‘Colorado River in Crisis’

LA Times  

The multimedia project includes a video series featuring key experts, a visual journey of photographs along the watershed, a six-episode podcast special featured on “The Times” and more. The idea for the project originated a year ago, when Staff Writer Ian James, who reported the articles along with former Houston Bureau Chief Molly Hennessy-Fiske, started seeing signs that the Colorado …

The river’s end: Amid Colorado water cuts, Mexico seeks to restore its lost oasis
1 year, 11 months ago

The river’s end: Amid Colorado water cuts, Mexico seeks to restore its lost oasis

LA Times  

When the Colorado River reaches the U.S.-Mexico border, it pushes up against Morelos Dam. VIDEO | 8:29 Colorado riverkeeper says day of reckoning is here: ‘This river can’t sustain 40 million people’ For decades, so much water has been diverted to supply farms and cities that the Colorado River has seldom met the sea and much of its delta in …

The Times podcast: Colorado River in Crisis, Part 2: The Source
2 years ago

The Times podcast: Colorado River in Crisis, Part 2: The Source

LA Times  

A jagged pattern on the surface of the snow indicates the course of a mountain stream that empties into Lake Granby, a vast reservoir at the headwaters of the Colorado River. The Colorado River begins in the Rocky Mountain snowpack, which provides the water that starts off the river on its epic journey. Host: Gustavo Arellano Guests: L.A. Times water …

Colorado River in Crisis: A Times series on the Southwest’s shrinking water lifeline
55 years ago

Colorado River in Crisis: A Times series on the Southwest’s shrinking water lifeline

LA Times  

The Colorado River can no longer withstand the thirst of the arid West. Water drawn from the river flows to nearly 40 million people in cities from Denver to Los Angeles and irrigates more than 5 million acres of farmland. Colorado River in Crisis is a series of stories, videos and podcasts in which Los Angeles Times journalists travel throughout …

The Times podcast: Colorado River in Crisis, Part 1: A Dying River
2 years ago

The Times podcast: Colorado River in Crisis, Part 1: A Dying River

LA Times  

A formerly sunken boat stands upright along the shoreline of Lake Mead at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Interior Department announced last fall that it will consider revising a set of guidelines for operating two major dams on the Colorado River in the first sign of what could lead to federal action to protect the shrinking reservoirs behind them. …

More questions than answers at Colorado River water meetings
2 years, 1 month ago

More questions than answers at Colorado River water meetings

Associated Press  

LAS VEGAS — Key questions resurfaced Thursday at a conference of Colorado River water administrators and users from seven U.S. states, Native American tribes and Mexico who are served by the shrinking river stricken by drought and climate change. I just have questions right now,” Ted Cooke, general manager of the Central Arizona Project, said during a Colorado River Water …

Increasing pressures on Colorado River water in New Mexico
2 years, 4 months ago

Increasing pressures on Colorado River water in New Mexico

Associated Press  

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Colorado River tributaries in New Mexico bring water to the alfalfa fields in the Four Corners and the forested hills of the Gila wilderness in the southwestern part of the state. State Engineer Mike Hamman, New Mexico’s top water manager, said the state “really feels the shortages” because it doesn’t have the big reservoirs of other states …

100 years after compact, Colorado River nearing crisis point
2 years, 4 months ago

100 years after compact, Colorado River nearing crisis point

Associated Press  

DENVER — The intensifying crisis facing the Colorado River amounts to what is fundamentally a math problem. In fact, first sliced up 100 years ago in a document known as the Colorado River Compact, the calculation of who gets what amount of that water may never have been balanced. FILE - A formerly sunken boat sits upright into the air …

In Mexico’s dry north, Colorado River adds to uncertainty
2 years, 4 months ago

In Mexico’s dry north, Colorado River adds to uncertainty

Associated Press  

MEXICALI — When Gilbert Quintana, a farmer in the Mexicali Valley, learned he would soon lose 15% of his water supply, he did what he’s done before in a pinch: buy water from other growers in northern Mexico. Adan Vallejo blocks water with mud as he irrigates a field of cotton with water from the Colorado River, Sunday, Aug. 14, …

Drought in the US: Water Supply Cut for States Colorado, Arizona; Mexico’s Quota Reduced
2 years, 4 months ago

Drought in the US: Water Supply Cut for States Colorado, Arizona; Mexico’s Quota Reduced

News 18  

Water supplies to some US states and Mexico will be cut to avoid “catastrophic collapse” of the Colorado River, Washington officials said Tuesday, as a historic drought bites. More than two decades of well below average rainfall have left the river — the lifeblood of the western United States — at critical levels, as human-caused climate change worsens the natural …

Why the Colorado River is now America’s most endangered
2 years, 8 months ago

Why the Colorado River is now America’s most endangered

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The report, from non-profit American Rivers, also lists the Snake River in the Pacific Northwest, Arizona’s San Pedro River, …

As climate talks put focus on water crisis, the Colorado River provides a stark example
3 years, 2 months ago

As climate talks put focus on water crisis, the Colorado River provides a stark example

LA Times  

As world leaders meet in Scotland this week to discuss efforts to address the climate crisis, experts are urging greater focus on adapting to fundamental shifts in the planet’s water supplies — and they’re pointing to the Colorado River as a prime example. “I can easily point to the Colorado as a place where we only have hard choices now.” …

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