Once-Dying Mexican River Delta Slowly Nursed Back To Life

Aerial view of the Colorado River Delta meeting the Gulf of California in Mexico (Credit: AFP)

In a drought-hit Mexican border region at the center of growing competition with the United States for water, conservationists are working to bring a once-dying river delta back to life.

On a stretch of the Colorado River, which on the Mexican side of the frontier is mostly a dry riverbed, native cottonwood and willow trees have been planted in place of invasive shrubs.