Lake Powell was born in September 1963, with the completion of Glen Canyon Dam, with the intention of fulfilling the obligations of the Upper Basin States of the 1922 Colorado River Compact (Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado) to deliver an annu
Resting workers watch a Mexican military anti-narcotics plane from a former wetland in the Colorado River Delta.
A young onion picker ties rubber bands around bunches of scallions in a Sonoran field on a late autumn afternoon in Mexico's Colorado River Delta. His working day began in the darkness, at 5 AM.
The Blue Angels, the United States Navy's aerobatic flight group, performs a flyover of Hoover Dam as part of the celebration there of the centennial of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the federal entity which built the dam in the 1930’s.
Intake pipes into Lake Mead which provide Colorado River water for nearby Las Vegas, Nevada. The city's water agency will be spending well over $1 billion to build a new intake and attached pumping station as insurance against continuing decline in
At Expedition Island, in Green River, Wyoming, where U.S. Civil War veteran and scientist Major John Wesley Powell and his party began both their 1869 and 1871 explorations of the Green and Colorado Rivers by wooden boat. Green River Butte is visibl
At Expedition Island, in Green River, Wyoming, where U.S. Civil War veteran and scientist Major John Wesley Powell and his party began both their 1869 and 1871 explorations of the Green and Colorado Rivers by wooden boat. Green River Butte is visibl
Fresh local oranges, mostly from groves irrigated with Colorado River water brought from over 300 km away.
The Central Arizona Project (CAP) Canal, at Bopp Road, outside Tucson, Arizona. The CAP Canal carries Colorado River water almost 500 kilometers to this point and then, beyond
The sprawl of Phoenix, Arizona from South Mountain Park.
Built on what was once the land of the Yavapai people, the town of Fountain Hills, built by Robert P. McCullough (who moved the old London Bridge to Lake Havasu) has the world's fourth tallest fountain. EPCOR, a private company, provides Colorado Ri
A broken sprinkler on Pebble Road, near the intersection with Green Valley Parkway in Las Vegas, Nevada. With an average annual rainfall of only 10.4 cm, much landscaping can only survive with regular irrigation.
Flyfishing on the Green River, below the Flaming Gorge Dam, in northern Utah.
The Big Surf water park in Tempe, Arizona, with the oldest recreational wave machine in the United States. The city receives Colorado River from Lake Havasu, over 300 kilometers away, via the Central Arizona Project Canal.
Harvesting head lettuce outside of Yuma, Arizona, where agriculture, which grows winter vegetables for the entire country, is almost entirely dependent on the Colorado River for irrigation.
Setting up the sound system for an outdoor December wedding at the Papago Golf Course, in Phoenix, Arizona.
People on a raft trip on the Colorado River through Grand Canyon National Park stop for a morning break at Red Wall Cavern.
A pickup truck churns up the dust from millions of years of Colorado River silt, deposited in the Mexican Delta, before the giant dams were built that changed everything.
Monica Gonzáles, the daughter of the traditional chief of the Cucapás, signs her name to a citation given to her from Mexican government officials, backed by armed marines, preventing her people from fishing for corvina (sea bass) in the nucleus zon
A Cucapá youth fishes for crabs near the mouth of the Colorado River in Mexican state of Baja California Norté, waiting for his father to return in his boat from curvina fishing. Because the Colorado River itself no longer reaches the ocean because
Mexican biologist Alejandra Calvo holds a Wilson's warbler caught in a research net erected in the Laguna Grande habitat restoration area in the Colorado River Delta.
Local environmentalist Juan Butrón pretends to drink water from the dry channel of the Colorado River as he goes looking for the leading edge of the slowly moving pulse flow of water from the Morelos Dam, a few kilometers upstream. Within a few hour
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