Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 19:35:41 +0000
There’s a very interesting image floating around social media now that makes a point I’ve been trying to make for years about the Colorado River. This graphic of Colorado River water usage depicts 79% being used for live stock details the how inefficient agriculture practices really are. (55% for growing livestock feed, much lost from […]
Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 15:05:09 +0000
The Colorado River runs 1,450 miles and serves 40 million people across 7 western US states. It reaches tribal lands and continues on into Mexico. Its waters make a multi-billion-dollar agricultural industry possible. For decades, drought in the West has been intensified by climate change, rising demand, and overuse; the result has been previously unseen […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 21:00:38 +0000
The extensive drought in the American Southwest has lowered the flow of water in the Colorado River to a fraction of normal.
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 12:30:11 +0000
The Colorado River basin is running out of water. This is because the demand for water is going up while the supply is going down. This is obviously bad, because the Colorado River is the main source of water for the western United States, including population centers like Las Vegas, the Phoenix Metro Area, and […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 09:50:08 +0000
My grandfather told me an interesting story once. When he was a kid, he realized that the desert was, in fact, quite dry in the Southwest. He remembers asking his dad (who I was fortunate enough to actually know a little as a kid) how all the new people moving in were going to get […]
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2022 04:32:55 +0000
The Colorado River wasn’t really on my mind as I was scrolling through TikTok the other night looking for cat videos, gem videos, and interesting smoothie recipes to try. The TikTok algorithm had other plans, however. To the surprise of Vanessa Keating, her video highlighting the decline of the Colorado River went viral. Her video […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2020 01:06:41 +0000
The Colorado River now carries about 20% less water than it did a century ago. The Colorado originates in the Rocky Mountains, where it is fed by melting snow. Due to the changes in weather patterns attributable to a heating planet, not as much snow falls in those mountains today as in prior years. Less snow means the land in the upper elevations is warmed by the sun where previously the snow cover would reflect sunlight back into space, making the area hotter, which means that whatever snow falls melts sooner
Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 02:27:26 +0000
After an 11-day hike around Zion Canyon, Brice Canyon, and the Grand Canyon, one thing became clear. Why are tourist parks and monument aviation so loud? We need quieter and cleaner electric mobility
Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 09:58:32 +0000
A major Southern California water agency is trying to push the state through a final hurdle in joining a larger plan to preserve a key river in the U.S.
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