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Colorado River Basin Has Lost Enough Water to Fill Lake Mead

/in , , /by /Earth.comby Andrei Ionescu

The Colorado River Basin – the area drained by the Colorado River and its tributaries – covers approximately 647,500 square kilometers (250,000 square miles) in seven states across western United States, supplying water to about 40 million people while supporting agriculture and natural ecosystems. According to a new study conducted by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), from 2000 to 2021, climate change caused the loss of over 40 trillion liters (10 trillion gallons) of water in this basin.

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California is Lone Holdout in Colorado River Cuts Proposal

/in , /by /AP Newsby Felicia Fonseca and Suman Naishadham

Six Western states that rely on water from the Colorado River have agreed on a model to dramatically cut water use in the basin, months after the federal government called for action and an initial deadline passed.

California — with the largest allocation of water from the river — is the lone holdout. Officials said the state would release its own plan.

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