Colorado River in Crisis is a series of stories, videos and podcasts in which Los Angeles Times journalists travel throughout the river’s watershed, from the headwaters in the Rocky Mountains to the river’s dry delta in Mexico.
is a series of stories, videos and podcasts in which Los Angeles Times journalists travel throughout the river’s watershed, from the headwaters in the Rocky Mountains to the river’s dry delta in Mexico.
These stories reveal the stark toll of the river’s decline, responses that have yet to match the scale of the crisis, and voices that are urging a fundamental rethinking of how water is managed and used to adapt to the reality of a river that is over-tapped and dwindling.
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Can cloud seeding bring more water to the drying Colorado River Basin?“There’s not enough moisture in the air,” Jay Famiglietti, director of the Global Institute for Water Security at the University of Saskatchewan, said.
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Could desalinated ocean water be used to fix the dwindling Colorado River?As the Colorado River dries up, experts look at whether desalinating ocean water could be a solution to keep the water source flowing.
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Can the West save the Colorado River before it’s too late? Here are 8 possible solutionsExperts in and out of the Colorado River region share ideas on how to keep the Colorado River Basin afloat, from desalination to cloud seeding and from importing to recycling water.
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Can water managers find ways to lower demand on the Colorado River?Controlling that demand is going to be “the way of the future,” John Berggren, a water policy analyst for the nonprofit Western Resource Advocates, said
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Agriculture uses more Colorado River water than anything else, how can the industry change?“Somebody has to start it,” Becky Mitchell, director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board, said.
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How can cities across the West grow to use Colorado River water sustainably?“We can’t just assume the water’s gonna be there,” Estevan López, the Upper Colorado River Compact Commissioner for New Mexico, said.
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