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The Colorado River provides water to nearly 36 million people. The river helps grow and produce many of the foods you eat, including much of the country's winter supply of carrots and lettuce.

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- Wikipedia
- American Rivers Org
- Forbes.com

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Negative effects
Of damming include periodic high flow experiments at Glen Canyon Dam to improve sediment dynamics, fish and wildlife habitat and the overall ecosystem along the Colorado River within the Grand Canyon.

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Intensive water consumption has dried up the lower 160 km of the river, which has rarely reached the sea since the 1960s.The Colorado River was dammed in 1922

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- rising temperatures will reduce the Colorado’s average flow after 2050 by five to 35 percent.

- The Colorado River basin has lost 15.6 cubic miles of freshwater in the last 10 years.

-Lake Mead, the largest reservoir on the Colorado River, has dropped over 140 feet over the past 15 years.

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- More water is being pumped out of the aquifers than can be naturally replenished.
- Often your neighbour is pumping from the same aquifer as you and you are both relying on water from the same body of water.

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The Colorado River is one of the principal rivers in the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The 1,450-mile-long river drains an expansive, arid watershed that encompasses parts of seven U.S. and two Mexican states.

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The Colorado River is in the United States and it is 246 000 square meters long.