Peter McBride From its source high in the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado River channels water south nearly 1,500 miles, over falls, through deserts and canyons, to the lush wetlands of a vast delta ...

Beginning in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and ending in the Gulf of California in Mexico, the Colorado River runs 2,300 kilometers (1,429 miles), with the latter end having lost most of its natural ...

The Colorado River is one of the most fully used—and heavily contested—waterways on Earth. It provides water for 30 million people and has many dams and diversions along its 1,450-mile (2,333 ...

An active March and start to April has allowed every river basin across Colorado to run above average ... is just about drought free. Abnormally dry (yellow) conditions indicate a drought is ...