Hoover Dam
Lower Colorado River Tour
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June 6, 2009--Lake Mead water level will be trigger for pipeline (Denver Post)
Opponents of a proposed pipeline to tap groundwater across eastern Nevada now have one more way to fight the project: Pray for the drought to end on the Colorado River.
April 21, 2009--Study: Shortages likely on Colorado River by 2050 (Denver Post)
If the West continues to heat up and dry out, odds increase that the mighty Colorado River won't be able to deliver all the water that's been promised to millions who rely on it for their homes, farms and
April 15, 2009--Lake Mead water level set to drop below 1965 mark (Denver Post)
Drought-stricken Lake Mead is expected to drop this summer to its lowest level since May 1965, and water managers say it is approaching the trigger point for restrictions on water use by Nevada and Arizona
March 19, 2009--Ship the Mississip to Colorado? (Denver Post)
He's been laughed at, brushed off, shut out and talked to as if he had just busted loose from the looney bin by more people than he can remember over his idea for solving Colorado's looming water supply sh
October 16, 2008--Mussel problem spreading downstream (Pueblo Chieftain)
Larvae from zebra or quagga mussels almost certainly have made their way downstream from Pueblo Dam in the Arkansas River, Bessemer Ditch and state fish hatchery.
August 20, 2008--Security lacking at dams in West (Rocky Mountain News)
Federal dams across the West are struggling to meet security challenges in the post- 9/11 world, according to a newly released analysis by the National Academies of Science.
June 17, 2008--Tiny, clingy and destructive, mussel makes its way west (New York Times)
The mussel-coated debris is unmistakable evidence of an event occurring silently and largely out of sight — the colonization of the Colorado River by the quagga mussel, a fingernail-size Eurasian bivalve with an astonishing sex drive and a nasty reputation for causing economic and ecological havoc.
February 12, 2008--Lake Mead may go dry by 2021 (CNet News)
There is a 50 percent chance that Lake Mead, which was created by the Hoover Dam and the Colorado River, will go dry by 2021 because of escalating human demand and climate change, according to a study by Tim Barnett and David Pierce of the
