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Water is becoming a scarce resource in many parts of the world. Water tables have been falling in many regions for decades…
Water is becoming a scarce resource in many parts of the world. Water tables have been falling in many regions for decades…
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Water is becoming a scarce resource in many parts of the world. Water tables have been falling in many regions for decades…
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Key reservoirs along the Colorado River are collectively at their lowest point at the start of a new water year since the last…
The Colorado River provides water for seven western states and Mexico. Heavily overallocated and ravaged by years of drought…
An hour’s drive from Las Vegas stands America’s Hoover Dam, a commanding barrier of concrete holding back the trillions of…
Warming temperatures are sapping the Colorado River, the water source for more than 40 million people in the southwest.
Arizona Republic Published 11:56 p.m. UTC Sep 4, 2018 With Lake Mead dropping to levels that could trigger water cutbacks in…
CLOSE The snow that falls in the Rocky Mountains provides the majority of the water for the Colorado River.
CLOSE The snow that falls in the Rocky Mountains provides the majority of the water for the Colorado River.
CLOSE The snow that falls in the Rocky Mountains provides the majority of the water for the Colorado River.
Arizona Republic Published 12:20 p.m. UTC Sep 4, 2018 With Lake Mead dropping to levels that could trigger water cutbacks in…
The snow that falls in the Rocky Mountains provides the majority of the water for the Colorado River.
But in a new report, scientists say the situation is just as worrisome upstream at Lake Powell.
But in a new report, scientists say the situation is just as worrisome upstream at Lake Powell.
CLOSE The snow that falls in the Rocky Mountains provides the majority of the water for the Colorado River.
Fear can be a powerful motivator. The mention of one plausible future scenario along the Colorado River is enough to make some…
Fear can be a powerful motivator. The mention of one plausible future scenario along the Colorado River is enough to make some…
Read in English LEMITAR, Nuevo México — Mario Rosales, quien cultiva 148 hectáreas a la orilla del río Bravo, sabe que este se…
Even in a good year, much of the Rio Grande is diverted for irrigation. But it’s only May, and the river is already turning to…
From the roof of Chuck McAfee’s adobe farmhouse in rural southwestern Colorado, you can see into three other states: Arizona…
This animation of Landsat images shows Lake Mead near its highest and lowest points over the past 32 years.
Between droughts and floods, the last decade has offered water managers in the Southwest a preview of how climate change could…
GLEN CANYON NATIONAL RECREATION AREA, Utah — Like many places across the West, Lake Powell seems impossibly large, mythical…
GLEN CANYON NATIONAL RECREATION AREA, Utah—Like many places across the West, Lake Powell seems impossibly large, mythical almost…
CLOSE The U.S. and Mexican governments may be sharply at odds on President Donald Trump’s plan for a border wall, but when it…
CLOSE The level of Lake Mead has been declining dramatically, and climate change is expected to put additional pressures on…
CLOSE The level of Lake Mead has been declining dramatically, and climate change is expected to put additional pressures on…
By Rosalyn R. LaPier,Harvard University The Colorado River, one of the longest rivers in the United States, is gradually…
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The Colorado River, one of the longest rivers in the United States, is gradually shrinking.
Rosalyn R. LaPier, Harvard University Updated 6:23 pm, Thursday, July 6, 2017 (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit…
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Rosalyn R. LaPier, Harvard University Published 6:13 pm, Thursday, July 6, 2017 (The Conversation is an independent and…
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Published by Business Insider on Tue, 27 Jun 2017 The nations two largest reservoirs, Lake Mead on the Arizona/Nevada border…
BY BRAD UDALL AND JONATHAN OVERPECK | June 25, 2017 DNN twitter feed Printer Friendly Email Article The nation’s two largest…
The nation’s two largest reservoirs, Lake Mead on the Arizona/Nevada border and Lake Powell on the Arizona/Utah border, were…
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The nation’s two largest reservoirs, Lake Mead on the Arizona/Nevada border and Lake Powell on the Arizona/Utah border, were…
Lake Powell, photographed April 12, 2017. The white ‘bathtub ring’ at the cliff base indicates how much higher the lake reached…
Lake Powell, photographed April 12, 2017. The white ‘bathtub ring’ at the cliff base indicates how much higher the lake reached…
By Brad Udall, Colorado State University and Jonathan Overpeck, University of Arizona | June 14, 2017 08:33am ET MORE The…
(THE CONVERSATION) The nation’s two largest reservoirs, Lake Mead on the Arizona/Nevada border and Lake Powell on the Arizona/Uta…
(THE CONVERSATION) The nation’s two largest reservoirs, Lake Mead on the Arizona/Nevada border and Lake Powell on the Arizona/Uta…
Brad Udall, and Jonathan Overpeck, (THE CONVERSATION) The nation’s two largest reservoirs, Lake Mead on the Arizona/Nevada…
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Picture a snowflake drifting down from a frigid February sky in western Colorado and settling high in the Rocky Mountains.
Colorado River flows were, on average, nearly 20 percent below the 1906-1999 average between 2000 and 2014, according to the…
A firefighter carries a woman from her car after it was caught in street flooding as a powerful storm moves across Southern…
Some 40 million people in the United States are at risks of losing their water source as the flow of Colorado River continued…
The drought-stricken Colorado River Basin has gotten some temporary relief in the past few weeks after winter storms have…
The drought-stricken Colorado River Basin has gotten some temporary relief in the past few weeks after winter storms have…
Warming in the 21st century has reduced Colorado River flows by at least 0.5 million acre-feet—about the amount of water used…
The Colorado River wraps around Horseshoe Bend on March 30, 2015 in Page, Ariz.
The Colorado River wraps around Horseshoe Bend on March 30, 2015 in Page, Ariz.
The Colorado River wraps around Horseshoe Bend in 2015 in Page, Ariz. The Colorado River Basin supplies water to 40 million…
Between 2000 and 2014, the worst 15-year drought on record, the annual flow of the Colorado River was reduced by 19 percent.
Global warming is already shrinking the Colorado River, the most important waterway in the American Southwest, and it could…
Warming in the 21st century has reduced Colorado River flows by at least 0.5 million acre-feet—about the amount of water used…
MIL OSI United Nations – Global warming is already shrinking the Colorado River, the most important waterway in the American…
Global warming is already shrinking the Colorado River, the most important waterway in the American Southwest, and it could…
Global warming is already shrinking the Colorado River, the most important waterway in the American Southwest, and it could…
DENVER – Global warming is already shrinking the Colorado River, the most important waterway in the American Southwest, and it…
Global warming is already shrinking the Colorado River and could cut the flow by more than a third by the end of the century…
DENVER — Global warming is already shrinking the Colorado River, the most important waterway in the American Southwest, and it…
By DAN ELLIOTT Associated Press DENVER (AP) - Global warming is already shrinking the Colorado River, the most important…
Global warming is already shrinking the Colorado River, the most important waterway in the American Southwest, and it could…
DENVER Global warming is already shrinking the Colorado River, the most important waterway in the American Southwest, and it…
DENVER — Global warming is already shrinking the Colorado River, the most important waterway in the American Southwest, and it…
Global warming is already shrinking the Colorado River, the most important waterway in the American Southwest, and it could…
DENVER — Global warming is already shrinking the Colorado River, the most important waterway in the American Southwest, and it…
DENVER — Global warming is already shrinking the Colorado River, the most important waterway in the American Southwest, and it…
CLOSE The snow that falls in the Rocky Mountains provides the majority of the water for the Colorado River.
Warming in the 21st century reduced Colorado River flows by at least 0.5 million acre-feet, about the amount of water used by 2…
Warming in the 21st century reduced Colorado River flows by at least 0.5 million acre-feet, about the amount of water used by 2…
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Warming in the 21st century reduced Colorado River flows by at least 0.5 million acre-feet, about the amount of water used by 2…