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The Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) is a nonprofit public utility created in November 1934 by the Texas Legislature. [1] LCRA's mission is to enhance the lives of the Texans it serves through water stewardship, energy and community service.
On November 20, 2012, the International Boundary and Water Commission of the United States and Mexico signed an agreement termed "Minute 319," which updated the Law of the River to address how the 1,500,000 acre-feet (1.9 km 3) of Colorado River water that Mexico receives every year would be affected by surplus or drought conditions. [47]
The current system by which Colorado River water is allocated expires at the end of 2026, and water users are scrambling to reach an agreement. The Central Arizona Project and Tom Buschatzke ...
The Colorado River, which provides water for about 15% of our country’s agriculture, is shrinking, and the current agreement that divvies up the water usage ends in 2026.
The Lower Colorado River Valley has unique plant communities because it is the most arid part of the desert and it has the highest temperatures, in excess of 120 °F (49 °C) during the summer. The low humidity means that most plants must have mechanisms that deal with severe water loss through evaporation.
The one certainty is there is less water in the Colorado River than there used to be, said climate scientist Jonathan Overpeck, dean of the University of Michigan’s School for Environment and ...
Map showing the Upper and Lower Colorado River Basin, and adjacent areas supplied by Colorado River water. The Colorado River Basin consists of 246,000 square miles (640,000 km 2), making it the seventh largest drainage basin in North America. [1] About 238,600 square miles (618,000 km 2), or 97 percent of the basin, is in the United States. [40]
As water and climate expert Peter Gleick told James recently, “If we had cut water use in the Colorado River over the last two decades to what we now understand to be the actual levels of water ...