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Well, I'll Be Un-Dammed: Colorado River (Briefly) Reached The Sea
2014-07-12 22:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: For a few weeks this spring, the Colorado River flowed all the way to the sea for the first time in a half a century. And during that window of opportunity, writer Rowan Jacobsen took the paddleboarding trip of a lifetime. The river starts in the Rocky Mountains, and for more than 1,400 miles, it wends its way south. Along the way it's dammed and diverted dozens of times, to cities and fields all over the American West. Tens of millions of people depend on the river as a water source. By the...
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