The Colorado River Basin is divided into upper and lower portions. It provides water to the Colorado River, a water source that serves 40 million people over seven states in the southwestern ...

The Colorado River relies heavily on snowpack in the Upper Basin states — Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — that melts ...

Snowpack in the upper Colorado ... in the river’s second largest reservoir, Lake Powell, largely dictate how much water is released to lower basin states like Arizona. Federal dam managers ...

Of all the challenges facing the Colorado River, there’s at least one that all stakeholders are working on collaboratively, not competitively — salinity.  Since 1974, the seven Colorado River basin ...

Learn about physical characteristics of the Colorado River basin, including climate ... account when selecting and developing a site for a dam, such as the geology of the area, valley size ...

Baker, S. A., Wood, A. W., Rajagopalan, B., Prairie, J., Jerla, C., Zagona, E., Butler, R. A., Smith, R. (2022). "The Colorado River Basin Operational Prediction ...

Wyoming’s water chief wants emergency funds for hydrologists to measure flows in the state’s portion of the troubled Colorado River Basin ... s Glen Canyon Dam, during a rolling 10-year ...