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Departing Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar shared a few thoughts at his exit ceremony about the keystone accomplishments of his four years and three months in office, and called out restoration of the Colorado River Delta as his signature achievement in water management (see our ongoing series on the delta): “The fourth keystone I spoke…
Landmark Cooperation Brings the Colorado River Home
Posted by Sandra Postel of National Geographic's Freshwater Initiative in Water Currents on April 5, 2013 
This post is part of a series on the Colorado River Delta. Standing at Morelos Dam, the last in the long line of dams on the Colorado River, and the only one in Mexico, it’s hard not to feel that we humans have betrayed this great river. It has traveled 1,350 miles from its headwaters,…
Since 1960, when the gates were closed on the newly built Glen Canyon Dam, the Colorado River has only rarely flowed to the sea, and the river’s delta started to fade. Water users in the United States saw Lake Powell, the reservoir behind the dam, as a bounty for booming cities in the desert. …
A Historic Binational Agreement Gives New Life to the Colorado River Delta
Posted by Sandra Postel of National Geographic's Freshwater Initiative in Water Currents on November 20, 2012 
Today, the United States and Mexico signed a landmark agreement that will return vital flows to the lower Colorado River and its once-bountiful delta and reconnect the river to its final destination, the Gulf of California. Through a five-year pilot initiative, the new agreement could demonstrate the potential to bring back crucial portions of the…
