来自MSN1 个月
Once Bone-Dry, the Colorado River Is Flowing Steadily Again—But Can Its Comeback Survive?
By the 1960s, the Colorado River no longer reached Mexico, drying up one of North America’s richest ecosystems. More than 80% of its wetlands vanished, leaving behind a desolate landscape.
The Durango Herald4 天
Colorado water project funding is drying up
Like other Western states, Colorado is racing to shore up aging water systems and make existing supplies stretch further as drought and rising temperatures shrink water supplies. The bill comes as ...
The Salt Lake Tribune14 天
Colorado River ‘running out of time’ to improve lagging spring outlook, forecasters say
a forecaster at the Colorado Basin River Forecast Center. We “saw a really nice bump” from storms in February, Alcorn said during a briefing Friday, “but as we dried out and warmed up in the ...
LAist26 天
Colorado River
The context: While some of those funds were earmarked to prop up renewable energy, at least $4 billion was set aside to protect the flow of the Colorado River, which supplies about 40 million ...
Surge in snowfall creates great ski conditions, peak levels in Upper Colorado snowpack
The Upper Colorado snowpack, which encompasses the Blue River Basin in Summit County, is experiencing a remarkable winter.
The Salt Lake Tribune20 天
New bill would give Utah’s ‘water agent’ more ‘behind-the-scenes’ power to ...
The bill “opens the door” to water projects that could impact the drought-stricken Colorado ... river also is a vital source of water to the Great Salt Lake, and developing it could reduce the ...
The Hill1 个月
Colorado River negotiators express urgency, uncertainty as deadline nears
Lead negotiators from the Colorado River’s Upper ... for updated guidelines for the river’s management. But two days after that deadline, the basins ended up publishing competing proposals.