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Just add water – Colorado Delta resurrects: Once written off, the Delta of the Colorado River has found a hardy band of NGOs and local governments willing to sweat to keep it wet

Posted by: Maven on March 15, 2010 at 7:21 am

co deltaFrom Miller McCune Magazine, this second installment of a three-part series on the Colorado River:

“Driving across the western edge of the dusty, barren Sonoran Desert south of the border between the United States and Mexico, it’s easy to get the feeling that if it weren’t for the regular occurrence of irrigation ditches, there wouldn’t be any water there at all.

The fields are green, but everything, from crop leaves to cars to houses, is covered with a fine, dry dust. From Yuma, Ariz., through San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora and through the busy agricultural area on the way to the Gulf of California — also known as the Sea of Cortez — farms become less frequent and the terrain more featureless.

After a particularly jarring few miles on unpaved washboard roads, a little hamlet called Ejido Luis Encinas Johnson appears, the desert beyond the palm tree-bedecked oasis unfolding into a vast tan sheet. It takes another 20 minutes or so to drive across the shifting desert sand on a vaguely defined track until the Ciénega de Santa Clara wetland — 12,000 acres of reed-choked marsh that today makes up the terminus of the Colorado River Corridor — appears on the horizon. … “


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March 15, 2010 · Filed Under Colorado River & the Southwest

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One Response to “Just add water – Colorado Delta resurrects: Once written off, the Delta of the Colorado River has found a hardy band of NGOs and local governments willing to sweat to keep it wet”

  1. WaterSource/WaterBank on March 16th, 2010 4:42 am

    ” Just add water ” …

    Nobody wants the water even when it is offered …

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