Colorado River

The high water mark for Lake Mead is seen on Hoover Dam and its spillway, Tuesday, April 16, 2013, near Boulder City, Nev. Citing drought and demand, advocacy group American Rivers is calling the Colorado River the nation's most endangered waterway. The group's annual report follows a federal Bureau of Reclamation study that says that over the next 50 years the Colorado River will run short of supply for the more than 40 million people it serves in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Group says Colorado River most endangered

LAS VEGAS -- Drought and demand are pushing the Colorado River beyond its limits - with the needs of more than 40 million people in seven Western states projected to outstrip dwindling supply over the next 50 years, according to an advocacy group's report on endangered rivers released on Wednesday.

The Colorado River feeds into Lake Mead. (October 2010) Low levels behind the dam show as a white "Bathtub ring".

Planners: Utah, area states living beyond their water means

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. -- Planners and engineers in the Colorado River Basin say a parched future could be in store for the region over the next 50 years as they prepare for a seven-state meeting in Las Vegas next week.

Kaitlin Kenney of Englewood, Colo., is seen in an undated photo provided by the Grand Canyon National Park. Authorities are scaling back the search for Kenney, reported missing Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013 from a private river trip in Grand Canyon National Park. Park rangers say Kenney, 21, was last seen Friday night, Jan. 11, 2013 at her group's camp near Tapeats Creek on the north side of the Colorado River. Helicopter and ground crews searched the Tapeats and Deer Creek drainages, Surprise Valley and along the river all weekend. Park spokeswoman Shannan Marcak said Tuesday, Jan. 15 that with no new clues, authorities have decided to scale back the search. (AP Photo/Grand Canyon National Park)

Woman missing in Grand Canyon

 

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK — Authorities are scaling back the search for a Colorado woman reported missing from a private river trip in Grand Canyon National Park.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, left, watches the high-flow release of water into the Colorado River from bypass tubes at Glen Canyon Dam in Page, Ariz., Monday Nov. 19. 2012. Federal water managers began started a 5-day high-flow experimental release to help restore the Grand Canyon's ecosystem. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher)

Water flow experiment begins at Grand Canyon

PAGE, Ariz. — Authorities launched an experiment Monday aimed at building beaches and sandbars on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona.

Helen Fairley, of USGA, monitors the Colorado River as it runs five times the normal flow Monday, Nov. 19, 2012, at Lee's Ferry in north Arizona. The U.S. Department of the Interior triggered the first "high-flow experimental release" at Glen Canyon Dam since 2008. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher)

US, Mexico rewrite rules on sharing Colorado River

SAN DIEGO — The United States and Mexico are rewriting rules on how to share water from the Colorado River, capping a five-year effort to form a united front against future drought in their western states.

Announcement planned on Colo. River water

LAS VEGAS — Government officials from United States and Mexico have set a Tuesday date in San Diego to sign a landmark agreement to share Colorado River water during times of drought and surplus.

FILE - This Aug. 31, 2002 file photo shows a group of visitors riding a pontoon raft through rapids in Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz. Thousands of people who had been on a waiting list for a coveted trip on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon still are waiting. (AP Photo/Brian Witte, File)

Grand Canyon river trips open to more

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The Grand Canyon boasts some of the most spectacular views in the world, revealing a rich geological history that few ever see from the Colorado River that formed it millions of years ago.

Feds OK operational changes to Glen Canyon Dam

 

PAGE, Ariz. — The federal government has approved two programs to further test the impact of flooding the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon and to help boost the native fish population.

Colorado River recreation generating money, jobs

DENVER -- Recreation on the Colorado River and its tributaries contributes about $17 billion in direct spending annually to the economies of six of the states that depend on its water, according to a study released Friday.

Glen Canyon Dam

Feds offer proposals for Glen Canyon Dam operation

PAGE, Ariz. — Federal officials say they’ve come up with some proposals on how to manage the flow of water at Glen Canyon Dam.

This winter reading list may inspire survival in hard times

An apology: My Sunday column said Sen. Orrin Hatch was one of many prominent people who have written U.S. District Judge Dee Benson on behalf of Brigham City Dr. Dewey MacKay, asking that MacKay receive a lenient sentence for his drug convictions.

As far as I know, Sen. Hatch is not among those who have written to Judge Benson on MacKay's behalf. I should not have included him in that column. I did so in error.

A swimmer returns to shore, August 3, 2011, at Lake Powells Lone Rock Beach, where the beach retreated (and the water advanced) several hundred feet this year. (Bettina Boxall/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Officials struggle to keep up with rising Lake Powell

PAGE, Ariz. -- It was another morning of chasing the water at Lake Powell. Jeff Wilson strained to adjust a floating dock to keep up with the swiftly rising level of one of the nation's biggest reservoirs.

This was supposed to be yet another dry year on the Colorado River system, which feeds Lake Powell and sustains more than 25 million people and upward of 3 million acres of farmland. Some Western states even feared cuts in water deliveries were looming.

Instead, so much snowmelt and storm runoff flowed into the river and its tributaries that for much of the summer Powell rose a foot a day. The reservoir now is 76 percent full, and its surface has reached the highest point in a decade, dramatically shrinking the white bathtub ring of mineral salts that had ominously marked the lake's retreat.

Colorado River users could face shortage in 2015

BOULDER, Colo. -- Deep spring snowpack in parts of the West has given states in the Colorado River basin some relief from drought, but water officials said Thursday there's still work to do to keep water flowing from faucets in the future.

Before this year, there was a "serious possibility" that a shortage would be declared next year of water for California, Arizona and Nevada, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Mike Connor said. That has been deferred until at least 2015, he said.

Report on Colorado River notes climate change

DENVER  -- An interim report on a study of potential imbalances in Colorado River water supply and demand predicts challenges from climate change.

Filling the gap with new bypass bridge at Hoover Dam

Named for heroes from different wars, the bridge designed to speed traffic by bypassing the area around the Hoover Dam was formally dedicated Thursday morning.

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