The Colorado River Basin is divided into upper and lower portions. It provides water to the Colorado River, a water source that serves 40 million people over seven states in the southwestern ...

This work is motivated by and could assist the upcoming renegotiation of the Colorado River Interim Guidelines for Lower Basin Shortages and Coordinated Operations for Lake Powell and Lake Mead.

Using the 1999 concentration levels, economic studies have identified the cost of damages due to increased salinity levels in the lower Colorado River basin at approximately $330 million dollars per ...

The amount of snowmelt expected to reach the key reservoirs on the Colorado River this spring is far below the median of the ...

The razorback sucker is a large, warm-water fish native to the Colorado River basin. Construction of more than a dozen dams throughout the lower basin has left little natural habitat for the fish and ...

Bureau of Reclamation. 2020. Review of the Colorado River Interim Guidelines for Lower Basin Shortages and Coordinated Operations for Lake Powell and Lake Mead. Washington DC: US Department of the ...