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Revival in the Colorado River Delta
This post is part of a series on the Colorado River Delta. So intimate was her connection to the river that as a girl she conditioned her hair with the soft mud from its channel bottom. Her family...
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The Accidental Wetland in the Colorado Delta
This post is part of a series on the Colorado River Delta. Traveling south from the Mexican border town of San Luis Rio Colorado, we stop about 20 miles (32.2 km) from the Upper Gulf of California. It...
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Landmark Cooperation Brings the Colorado River Home
In most years, little water makes it past Morelos Dam just south of the U.S.-Mexico border, which leaves the Colorado River and its delta dry. Photo by Cheryl Zook/National Geographic This post is part...
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Colorado River, Meet the Sea
This post is part of a series on the Colorado River Delta. Walking the mudflats of the Colorado River Delta in northwestern Mexico, my feet touch silt and sediment that originated in the U.S. Rocky...
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Returning the Colorado River to the Sea
This post is part of a series on the Colorado River Delta. Once teeming with life and spanning some two million acres, the delta of the Colorado River ranked among the planet’s greatest desert deltas....
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Bringing New Life to the Colorado Delta’s Fisheries
This post is part of a series on the Colorado River Delta. The Colorado River sustains more than 30 million people and vast areas of farmland. But with no flow reaching the delta and the sea in most...
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Locals Help Restore the Colorado Delta
This post is part of a series on the Colorado River Delta. The Colorado River Delta once boasted a million acres of lush cattail marshes and riverside forests of cottonwoods and willows. But today,...
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Once a Smelly Nuisance, Mexicali’s Wastewater Now Brings Life to the Colorado...
This post is part of a series on the Colorado River Delta. If there is one place that transforms wastewater from trouble-maker to life-saver it’s the site of Las Arenitas sewage treatment plant in the...
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