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The river’s end: Amid Colorado water cuts, Mexico seeks to restore its lost oasis

LOS ALGODONES, Mexico — When the Colorado River reaches the U.S.-Mexico border, it pushes up against Morelos Dam. Nearly all the remaining water is shunted aside into an immense canal and flows toward the farmlands and cities of Baja California.

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‘A living spirit’: Native people push for changes to protect the Colorado River

FORT MOHAVE, Ariz. — On a bluff overlooking the Lower Colorado River Valley, the ground bears an image of two giant figures. Known as the Twins, these ancient figures are revered by members of the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe, who say they show their people’s deep connection to the land…

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Wet La Nina winter likely to bring more water into Lake Powell

LAS VEGAS — One of the Colorado River’s two major reservoirs is expected to collect better than average runoff this year, thanks to an unusually wet La Nina pattern that dropped a deluge of snow up and down the basin.

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Michael Hiltzik: The fight over the Colorado River is a 100-year-old interstate grudge match

Arizona was girding for war with California over the Colorado River.

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Q&A: Colorado River crisis brings ‘very dry’ reality to US West

Al Jazeera speaks to UN expert Lis Mullin Bernhardt about need to adapt to historic drought’s impact on key US waterway.

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Why desert golf courses and artificial lakes remain untouched by the Colorado River crisis

LA QUINTA, Calif. — Golf courses. Ponds. Acres of grass. Cascading waterfalls. Displays of water extravagance zip past each day when Sendy Hernández Orellana Barrows drives to work.

Los Angeles Times

In Arizona, Colorado River crisis stokes worry over growth and groundwater depletion

BUCKEYE, Ariz. — Kathleen Ferris stared across a desert valley dotted with creosote bushes, wondering where the water will come from to supply tens of thousands of new homes. In the distance, a construction truck rumbled along a dirt road, spewing dust.

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How Las Vegas declared war on thirsty grass and set an example for the desert Southwest

LAS VEGAS — Fountains still shimmer opulently at casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, but lush carpets of grass are gradually disappearing along the streets of Sin City.

Los Angeles Times

In California’s Imperial Valley, farmers brace for a future with less Colorado River water

HOLTVILLE, Calif. — Just north of the California-Mexico border, the All-American Canal cuts across 80 miles of barren, dune-swept desert. Up to 200 feet wide and 20 feet deep, the canal delivers the single largest share of Colorado River water to the fertile farmlands of the Imperial Valley.

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What the crisis on the Colorado River means for Southern California

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What the crisis on the Colorado River means for Southern California

LOS ANGELES — Call it water whiplash: As California recovers from one of its wettest months in recent history, the Colorado River is still dwindling toward dangerous lows.

Los Angeles Times

As climate change and overuse shrink Lake Powell, the emergent landscape is coming back to life – and posing new challenges

As Western states haggle over reducing water use because of declining flows in the Colorado River Basin, a more hopeful drama is playing out in Glen Canyon.

The Conversation

A river guide’s view of Lake Powell’s decline and the depths of the Colorado River crisis

LAKE POWELL, Utah — Muddy water whizzed past as John Weisheit steered a motorboat upstream in the Colorado River. He revved the engine as the boat sped around a bend and up a riffle.

Los Angeles Times

The Colorado River is overused and shrinking. Inside the crisis transforming the Southwest

BERTHOUD PASS, Colo. — The Colorado River begins as melting snow, trickling from forested peaks and coursing in streams that gather in the meadows and valleys of the Rocky Mountains.

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Colorado River crisis is so severe, Lake Mead and Lake Powell are unlikely to refill in our lifetimes

LOS ANGELES — The snowpack in the Sierra Nevada is the deepest it’s been in decades, but those storms that were a boon for Northern California won’t make much of a dent in the long-term water shortage for the Colorado River Basin — an essential source of supplies for Southern…

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Editorial: Why California leaders may regret playing hardball in negotiations over the Colorado River

The failure of California and six other Western states to meet a Jan. 31 deadline for deciding how to divvy up the dwindling water supplied by the Colorado River clears the way for one of the biggest fights over natural resources in U.S. history — and already the Golden State…

Financial Times

The battle for the Colorado River is a water warning to us all

Who should control access to increasingly scarce resources?

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California bucks a united front as region grapples with Colorado River water cuts

With the recent expiration of a federal deadline, California now finds itself sharply at odds with six other states over how to take less water from the shrinking Colorado River.

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California offers proposal on Colorado River crisis, disagreeing with six states

California has given the federal government its own counterproposal for apportioning reductions of Colorado River water, saying a plan offered by six other states would disproportionately burden farms and cities in Southern California.

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U.S. states struggle to share dwindling waters of Colorado River

The Colorado River, which provides drinking water to 40 million people in seven U.S. states, is drying up, straining a water distribution pact amid the worst drought in 12 centuries, exacerbated by climate change.

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Adam Minter: Arizona can't keep growing without finding more water

The 23-year drought that’s parching the Southwest is forcing Arizona to make a bitter choice. Unless developers can find new sources of water, the state’s largest master-planned housing development is going to remain a desert.

The Independent UK

California releases its own plan for Colorado River cuts

California has released a plan outlining how it thinks states should reduce their reliance on the Colorado River

Los Angeles Times

States miss deadline to address Colorado River water crisis, pressure builds on California

The seven states that depend on the Colorado River have failed to meet a Tuesday deadline for agreeing on a water-use reduction plan, raising the likelihood of more friction as the West grapples with how to manage the shrinking river.

Al Jazeera

US states propose Colorado River cuts, California lone holdout

Authorities in US West are in talks to cut water use as Colorado River faces historically low levels amid drought.

Los Angeles Times

States at impasse as Colorado River water deadline arrives; pressure builds on California

The seven states that depend on the Colorado River have missed a Jan. 31 federal deadline for reaching a regionwide consensus on how to sharply reduce water use, raising the likelihood of more friction as the West grapples with how to take less supplies from the shrinking river.

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