A new UCLA–NRDC report shows massive pricing disparities in who pays what for water from the #ColoradoRiverBasin.
Some California urban water agencies shell out over $2,500 per acre-foot of surface water, while some irrigation districts pay $0—for the exact same water. ucla.in/4pC6ODH @nrdc.org
#TBT: In 2021, LightHawk and American Rivers flew the Yampa—for a film telling the story of one of the last free-flowing rivers in the Colorado Basin.
Today, it’s still at the heart of the fight for resilient rivers in the West.
📸 David Cole
#FlyingForGood #ColoradoRiverBasin
#ColoradoRiverBasin Has Lost As Much #Water As Full #LakeMead Since 2003
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#Water levels continue to drop as “unprecedented drought” plagues the #ColoradoRiverBasin, according to the Bureau of Reclamation. The agency’s latest 24-month study ... shows #LakePowell will most likely start next year 33 feet lower than it did this year."
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Choice of crops growing in La Paz, Maricopa, Pinal, and Cochise counties, AZ--as well as wasteful irrigation techques used--are partially to blame.
#CadillacDesert
#GroudwaterMining
#desertagriculture
#ColoradoRiverBasin
#TheFourCorners
#DaysAreNumbered
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“We stand on the brink of system failure.”
As negotiations stall, the Interior Department is pushing #ColoradoRiverBasin states to reach a new water sharing deal before November or face a federally imposed plan.
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#Declining #Freshwater Availability in the #ColoradoRiverBasin Threatens #Sustainability Its #Critical #Groundwater #Supplies
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Satellite data shows that dust changes the albedo of snow, making it melt faster and impacting runoff rates across the Colorado River Basin. ☀️ In dusty years, snowmelt can speed up by 17 days!
Learn more here: buff.ly/GWHJKdC
#TWR #TheWaterReport #ColoradoRiverBasin #WaterSupply #ClimateChange
Declining #Freshwater Availability #ColoradoRiverBasin Threatens #Sustainability of Its Critical #Groundwater
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #water #hydrology #waterresources #aridification #climatechange #irrigation #monitoring #remotesensing #model #droughts #spatialanalysis
#USGS #ColoradoRiverBasin #Science & #Technology Collaboration Meetings #Drought
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#water #hydrology #fedscience #ColoradoRiver #waterresources #climatechange #management #humanimpacts #ecosystems #USWest #GIS #spatial #mapping #stakeholder #cost #economics @usfs.bsky.social
154 days. That’s how long it’s been since AZ saw measurable rain. Thank you Mother Nature. #globalwarming #climatecrisis #coloradoriverbasin
That is no small feat, as leaders of the states that use #ColoradoRiver #water are caught in a legal standoff about how to share it going forward.…
"Having this appropriated funding suddenly taken away undoes years & years of very careful collaboration among the #states in the […]
Storm approaching in southern Utah.
Approaching storm (Thunder Road - my title) in southern Utah.
#Photography #BurrDesert #ColoradoRiverBasin
Sunrise in the canyon lands of Utah.
Sunrise, southeastern Utah.
#Photography #Wingate #WhiteRim #Geology #ColoradoRiverBasin #GreaterCanyonlands
Storm clearing at treeline along the Tenmile Range in Colorado.
Afternoon storm clearing at treeline along the Tenmile Range south of Breckenridge, CO.
#Photography #Rockies #ArapahoeNationalForest #ColoradoRiverBasin
An afternoon thunderstorm passing across the Canyonlands National Park, Utah.
A storm passing across Canyonlands National Park, Utah. Green River is in the right-midground, with Turks Head on the river-right. Ekker and Elaterite Butes in the distance, the Land of Standing Rocks center horizon.
#Photography #ColoradoRiverBasin #IslandInTheSky #MazeDistrict #NeedlesDistrict
Looking up from the bottom of a Utah canyon where a stream pour-off occurs.
A pour-off from the White Rim Sandstone layer and through the Organ Rock formation. Greater Canyonlands, Utah.
#Photography #Geology #DesertSouthwest #ColoradoRiverBasin
At the end of 2022, 65 percent of the Western United States was in severe drought, the result of a two decades long mega drought in the Colorado River Basin that had captured headlines around the world.
However, #ColoradoRiverBasin #NASA #OpenET #WaterSupply
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New #Water #Accounting Reveals Why The #ColoradoRiver No Longer Reaches The Sea
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#ColoradoRiverBasin Dynamic #Wetland #Mapper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #webmap #spatialanalysis #water #hydrology #Colorado #coloradoriver #watersheds #USWest #NWI #management #ecosystems #restoration #ecosystems #wildlife #beavers #beaver #habitat #riverscape #model #modeling
How can the #ColoradoRiverBasin states manage to keep the Colorado River from running dry, now that a fed deadline has come and gone? Tune in to our interview w/ @AaronCitron of @nature_org & @jerd_smith of Fresh Water News, 8:33-9:00a MT, or@KGNU
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