Colorado River Water Rights. Water supply and water rights. The colorado river spanish.
Burgeoning growth meant increased water demand and the other colorado basin states feared california would establish priority rights to colorado river water. 1996 2018 available online. In 1922 when the colorado river compact was negotiated and the river s water was divided up for use among the seven states that comprise the river s upper and lower basins the total annual.
In 1922 when the colorado river compact was negotiated and the river s water was divided up for use among the seven states that comprise the river s upper and lower basins the total annual.
The colorado river spanish. By the early 1920s the colorado basin states were anxious about their share of the colorado river. The colorado river serves over 35 million americans before reaching mexico but it is dammed at the border leaving locals on the other side with a dry delta. Starting in the central rocky mountains of colorado the river flows generally southwest across.