Monday, 23 August 2021

The Colorado River is shrinking. Hard choices lie ahead, this scientist warns

The Colorado River is shrinking. Hard choices lie ahead, this scientist warns

On a spring morning in 1996, then–Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt stood at Glen Canyon Dam, a concrete bulwark in Arizona that holds back the Colorado River to form Lake Powell. During a live broadcast on the Today show, a popular national TV program, Babbitt opened valves to unleash an unprecedented experimental flood into the Grand Canyon just downstream.

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