Sunday Art Day! "Owl Eyes" - The Grand Canyon can require your full attention for many reasons- danger, navigation, planning. However, this moment demanded everyone stop in their tracks in awe!
🎨: Hannah Jensen #sundayartday #grandcanyonart #grandcanyonartists #coloradoriver #owleyes #gcnp

2026's historic snow drought is bad news for the West For much of the Western US, winter 2026 was the year snow never came.

"The record-low snowpack may be a harbinger of what a warmer future will look like in the western US."

arstechnica.com/science/2026... #badnews #coloradoriver #drought #lakepowell #precipitation #rain #snowdrought #snowpack #stresstest #water #waterrights #westernstates #wildfires #wildfireseason

#ColoradoRiver Remains in Crisis with Continued Uncertainty on Water Supply and Operations -- Jennifer Pitt (Audubon.org) #COriver #aridification coyotegulch.blog/2026/03/28/c...

Colorado River Negotiations Resume With Focus on Stopgap Measures - Inside Climate News Water negotiators are facing a worsening water supply forecast with record-low snowpack across the West.

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#coloradoriver #water

The #ColoradoRiver is in crisis with no #WaterPolicy deal in sight. In our new webinar "Desperate Times on the Colorado River" 4 experts break down the standoff between upper & lower basin states, what Fed intervention would look like & what it means for 40M people.
Watch now 👇 youtu.be/XPM8xh-apP8

Amid 'dire situation' for Colorado River Basin, headwater states say they can't cut water they don't have - WyoFile Under pressure to strike a compromise on water cuts, and amid talk of litigation, upper-basin states like Wyoming claim the West's climate-fueled drought limits what they can offer.

Under pressure to strike a compromise on water cuts, and amid talk of litigation, upper-basin states like Wyoming claim the West’s climate-fueled drought limits what they can offer. - @wyofile.com #coloradoriver #coloradorivercrisis wyofile.com/amid-dire-si...

AWE Water Experience | Grand Canyon Virtual Tour

#Colorado #ColoradoRiver #Environment #Politics (because #VotingHasConsequences) #Indigenous #Climate #Water #PublicLands
awe-water.org/grand-canyon...

AWE Water Experience | Grand Canyon Virtual Tour

#Colorado #ColoradoRiver #Environment #Politics (because #VotingHasConsequences) #Indigenous #Climate #Water #PublicLands
https://awe-water.org/grand-canyon-immersive/

As expected, after 10 days of unprecedented March warmth, snowpack across Colorado has been absolutely decimated, now sitting at 34% of normal statewide. (1/3)

#COWx #Colorado #Snowpack #Denver #ColoradoRiver #Drought #heatwave

Low snowpack and early melt threaten spring runoff on the Colorado River, raising concerns for Lake Powell Record-low snowpack across the Upper Colorado River Basin will likely translate to poor conditions for spring runoff, and could mean emergency action to supplement low water levels in Lake Powell.

"Over the past several years, those minimum probable forecasts have been much closer to accurate than the most probable forecast." — CIRES and @wwanews.bsky.social's Seth Arens discusses how the #SnowDrought will impact spring melt and the #ColoradoRiver
www.aspenpublicradio.org/environment/...

2026’s historic snow #drought brings worries about water, wildfires and the future in the West -- Alejandro N. Flores (TheConversation.com) #snowpack #runoff #ColoradoRiver #COriver #aridification coyotegulch.blog/2026/03/26/2...

This is a graph of #snowpack above #LakePowell using 104 snow measuring stations. It was 9 inches of water on March 7, now 6 inches. Other dry years shown.There is no historical analog to this — Brad ... Colorado River snowpack evolution since Oct 2025. Melt started about March 7. Down to 6Inches now from 9 inches then. There is no historical analog.

This is a graph of #snowpack above #LakePowell using 104 snow measuring stations. It was 9 inches of water on March 7, now 6 inches. Other dry years shown.There is no historical analog to this -- Brad Udall #ColoradoRiver #COriver #aridification coyotegulch.blog/2026/03/26/t...

Navajo Dam Operations Meeting [Virtual] – April 21, 2026 1-3pm — Reclamation #SanJuanRiver #ColoradoRiver #COriver #aridification The San Juan River near Navajo Dam, New Mexico, Aug. 23, 2015. Photo credit: Phil Slattery Wikimedia Commons From email from Reclamation: March 20, 2026 Reclamation conducts Public Operations Meeti…

Navajo Dam Operations Meeting [Virtual] - April 21, 2026 1-3pm -- Reclamation #SanJuanRiver #ColoradoRiver #COriver #aridification coyotegulch.blog/2026/03/26/n...

Driving back today from the Western Slope of Colorado to the Front Range.

The snowpack in the Colorado mountains is gone! Gone!

The state that originates four major rivers - the Colorado, the Arkansas, the Platte, and the Rio Grande - is going dry.

How about you?

#water #ColoradoRiver

Climate-Fueled Heat Waves Are Creating a Water Crisis in the Southwest Scientists are linking deadly heat waves, like the record-breaking heat dome, to pollution from fossil fuel companies.

Climate-Fueled Heat Waves Are Creating a Water Crisis in the Southwest
#ClimateCrisis #WaterScarcity #Southwest #HeatWave #ColoradoRiver
truthout.org/articles/cli...

#Arizona hires high-powered law firm, setting the stage for a legal battle over #ColoradoRiver water -- Caitlin Sievers (AZMirror.com) coyotegulch.blog/2026/03/25/a...

Notre vol est momentanément sous le niveau du plateau

Images d’ici et d’ailleurs.

Images from here and elsewhere.

Bilder von hier und anderswo.

#Arizona
#GrandCanyonSouthRim
#ColoradoRiver

A river ran through it: America’s thirsty West — TIME I’VE SPENT MOST OF MY LIFE CHASING SNOW AND WATER around the West. I grew up on a cattle ranch in central Colorado, so I learned early on that food does not come from the supermarket and water does no...

“A river ran through it: America’s thirsty West” — Time

#ColoradoRiver #ClimateCrisis #LakePowell #LakeMead #WaterCrisis #Drought #DeadPool #WaterScarcity

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The #ColoradoRiver and the Tragedy of the Anti-Commons -- John Fleck (InkStain.net) #COriver #aridification coyotegulch.blog/2026/03/24/t...

Arizona water department secures law firm for potential Colorado River legal fights The Arizona Department of Water Resources is gearing up for a legal fight over Colorado River negotiations and has hired a law firm to represent the state.

#Arizona #water department secures law firm for potential #ColoradoRiver legal fights www.kjzz.org/politics/202...

La rivière Colorado et ses rapides

Images d’ici et d’ailleurs.

Images from here and elsewhere.

Bilder von hier und anderswo.

#Arizona
#GrandCanyonSouthRim
#ColoradoRiver

Réellement irréel

Images d’ici et d’ailleurs.

Images from here and elsewhere.

Bilder von hier und anderswo.

#Arizona
#GrandCanyonSouthRim
#ColoradoRiver

Twelve years ago, we drove just outside Yuma, AZ, to witness a historic #PulseFlow of the #ColoradoRiver from Morelos
Dam towards the Gulf of Mexico. People cheered, and within minutes, in front of the dam, tens of birds arrived.
It was beautiful.
#Minute319
#habitat
#RaiseTheRiver
#SaveTheColorado

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Colorado River management plans to be determined by government after negotiations stall - Replaye The federal government is moving forward with plans on how to manage the Colorado River after negotiations on access stalled between seven Western states and 30 tribal nations.

Colorado River management plans to be determined by government after negotiations stall
replaye.com/colorado-riv...

#News #Colorado #River #ColoradoRiver

#ColoradoRiver negotiations resume with focus on stopgap measure in face of worsening hydrology -- Scott Franz (KUNC.org) #COriver #aridification coyotegulch.blog/2026/03/22/c...

The guides securing our gear for the whitewater trip on the Colorado River, within the Grand Canyon. There are high, rocky cliffs on each side of the calm river, at this section

During a whitewater passage, you can see the waves and the guides using oars to navigate the fun, but rough, waters

Me in an inflatable raft, wearing a red life jacket, sunglasses and cap, and the gorgeous backdrop of the Grand Canyon

Whitewater fun! 🤩 🌊

Californians just call the Colorado River, “the river”. These are pics from my whitewater trip down the Grand Canyon, some years ago 🌊
#photography #art #travel #whitewater #ColoradoRiver #GrandCanyon #adventure

Nous y sommes À cette vue c’est une explosion d’émotions Tout en bas la fameuse Colorado River

Images d’ici et d’ailleurs.

Images from here and elsewhere.

Bilder von hier und anderswo.

#Arizona
#GrandCanyonSouthRim
#ColoradoRiver

A black and white photo of a towering time worn cliff and slope of debris below it. The cliff all about vertical lines and light coming from the right, with many clefts across it's face, each shaded to their left. Snow caps the few horizontal lines near the top. The slope of debris fanning out at the base of the huge cliff is coated with snow, but shows dark vertical lines, and many huge boulders peppering it's flanks. The sky to the right is blank, and uniform. It is actually an active snow storm that had just passed this location. At the bottom foreground are a few small conifers and leafless trees, contrasting with the snowy slope beyond.

#Stone #BlueSkyArtShow Edifice
#Moab #ColoradoRiver #B&W #Monochrome #LandscapePhotography #Scape #Winter #Sandstone #Cliff #Geology #Utah 🧪 #📷 #Vertical #Horizontal #EastCoastKin

#ColoradoRiver Upper Basin states test methods to fill #LakePowell pool: States say automatically turning to agriculture isn’t always reliable -- Heather Sackett (AspenJournalism.org) #COriver #aridification coyotegulch.blog/2026/03/21/c...