As the Colorado River’s reservoirs have declined, even larger amounts of groundwater have been drained from aquifers. Using ...

From the metal trap, he dropped a thumb-sized fish into a bucket ... Last week, during high tide, this piece of the Colorado River finally reached the sea again. At UCSD, the Costco Club pays ...

The drought crisis on the Colorado River looms large in California ... “Less water coming to the farmers, less water coming into the Salton Sea,” Mr. Ruiz said. “That’s just the pure ...

when the Colorado River flowed freely into Mexico and created a vast, fertile, wildlife-rich delta before finally draining into the Sea of Cortez. The Indigenous Cucapah thrived there, as did ...

“It’s also calcium, magnesium, potassium, sulfate, bicarbonate — all these other compounds that dissolve into the water contribute to salinity,” Hoblitzell said. The Colorado River in its ...

Before the Colorado River was tamed by dams and dikes it ... in years of powerful floods it would flow into the Salton Sea Basin, and fill it up to form what we call Lake Cahuilla.

The shore line of the Salton Sea taken from the Salton Sea State Recreation Area. Credit: Stan Lim/UC Riverside “There is less water coming from the Colorado River into the Sea, and that is driving ...

With less water running off fields and into the sea, growing stretches of dry lakebed ... who receive the single largest share of Colorado River water. While the growers adamantly oppose leaving ...

Those farms have a single source of water: the Colorado River. The Salton ... and the river flooded into the historic lakebed of Lake Cahuilla. Since then, the sea has been fed by agricultural ...

Artificial Oasis Recycles Water to Restore Colorado River Delta An innovative water recycling project called Las Arenitas is transforming used water from Mexicali into an ecological lifeline for the ...

Eduardo Blancas, restoration coordinator for the group Restauremos El Colorado, stepped into a kayak and ... slow crawl down 40 miles of river channel toward the sea.