New study explores water use in the Colorado River Basin. Irrigation among Utah’s priorities.

The final 100 miles of the Colorado River is a shell of its former self — nearly 10 miles wide at the turn of the century, steamboats would transport carriages and early-model cars from Mexicali to San Luis in Mexico’s Baja California state. Jaguars, beavers, deer and coyotes roamed the fertile riparian ecosystem and farmers […]