The Colorado River leaves its home state big and powerful, but by the time it reaches the border with Mexico, it's barely a trickle, sucked up by the states along the way to feed agriculture and (especially, these days) cities in the arid southwest.
This experiment to revitalize the Colorado River Delta by sending a brief surge of water through it is remarkably cool on multiple levels.
The Colorado River Flows to the Sea
This week, the Colorado River will be reunited with the sea – a destination it hasn’t seen in many years – thanks to the “pulse flow.” Scientists monitoring the flow expect the two waters to meet sometime tomorrow, during high tide, but it’s actually possible that the river reached the sea last week, as we…
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