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I live way out east. I read that people are sucking the Colorado River dry before it ever reaches he ocean.

2007-02-26 01:00:49 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Geography

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Technically the Gulf of California. Which connects to the Pacific ocean.

2007-02-26 01:04:22 · answer #1 · answered by Samantha 6 · 1 0

Indeed, it is but a trickle which sometimes soaks into the sand before it actually reaches the ocean. The United States allocates more water from the river than now flows in a typical year. (Allocations were based on a time when the flow rate was higher.) That doesn't mean we always use the full allocation but we certainly use up most of it...and what we don't use gets sucked up by Mexico.

Obviously, this is a huge political and ecological issue.

2007-02-26 13:37:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The last I heard the Colorado River is a mere trickle by the time it reaches the Gulf of California. This is a shame, for just last summer I was at Phantom Ranch at the bottom of Grand Canyon and it is a mighty river at that point.

2007-02-26 13:08:33 · answer #3 · answered by Amphibolite 7 · 0 0

It hasn't reached the Gulf since about 1998, It turns into little more than a collectioin of trash and sludge from Mexico about 40mi before it gets to the Gulf which is PATHETIC considering, but Im sure if you ask anyone in the government they'll let you know they're not harming the enviroment or destroying fertil land or any of that, they're creating livable land in the desert by making another part of the world a wastland...

2014-03-10 14:44:22 · answer #4 · answered by Shane Edenfield 1 · 0 0

It goes to the Gulf of California (between Baja California and the rest of Mexico) which is connected to the Pacific.

2007-02-26 09:04:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

It empties into the Gulf of California. Despite agreements with Mexico that the flow should be guaranteed at a certain level, there ain't much there!

HTH

Charles

2007-02-26 09:12:00 · answer #6 · answered by Charles 6 · 0 0

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