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Most of the Colorado River’s total annual water flow is being used to irrigate agricultural crops, depleting this essential water source.

For most of its 6 million-year existence, the Colorado River ran from the Continental Divide, high in the Rocky Mountains, downward and west, through forest and red rock, to a lush delta at the northernmost tip of the Gulf of California. Its winding descent carved, among other wonders, what people now call the Grand Canyon.Today, the Colorado is so siphoned and stalled by

California has agreed to make long-term cuts to the amount of water the state uses from the Colorado River, according to a proposed plan for managing

In 1922, the Colorado River Compact that divided the river’s water rights among seven U.S. states and Mexico left tribes out of the picture.

In 1922, the Colorado River Compact that divided the river’s water rights among seven U.S. states and Mexico left tribes out of the picture.