The river gets its water from the Colorado River drainage basin, which spreads some 246,000 square miles. A drainage basin is an area where all precipitation flows to the same river, or set of ...

Ocean drainage basin map of the United States Robert Szucs ... One of the most famous examples of human tampering is the Colorado River. As Pinter puts it, “every drop is spoken for and ...

The Colorado River water touches seven states and Mexico and is 1,450 miles long – the sixth longest in the nation according to river conservation organization American Rivers. More than a ...

The Colorado River basin has lost huge volumes of groundwater over the past two decades according to a new report from researchers at Arizona State University. Researchers used data from NASA ...

Federal officials on Friday announced $64 million in new Colorado River water conservation deals ... Irrigators from the Yuma Mesa Irrigation and Drainage District agreed to accept $400 per ...

California, Arizona and Nevada, three of seven states that depend on the shrinking Colorado River for water and hydropower, plan to temporarily reduce the amount of river water they use by 13% ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced Tuesday that it has discovered zebra mussels in the Colorado River and the Government ... clogging waterways and drainage systems. CPW said they discovered ...