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PLACES IN NEWS - 2■
COLORADO RIVER BASIN#Geographhicalfeatures□ WHY IN NEWS ?
The federal government in the US has declared a water shortage for the Colorado river basin due to a historic drought.
□ COLORADO RIVER.
◇ The Colorado River flows from the
Rocky Mountains into the
southwestern US and into
Mexico.
◇ The river is fed by
snowmelt from the Rocky and Wasatch mountains and flows a distance of over 2,250 km (river Ganga flows through a distance of roughly 2,500 km) across seven states and into Mexico.
◇ The Colorado River Basin is divided into the
Upper (Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and northern Arizona) and
Lower Basins (parts of Nevada, Arizona, California, southwestern Utah and western New Mexico).
◇ In the Lower Basin, the
Hoover Dam controls floods and regulates water delivery and storage.
◇ Apart from the Hoover dam, there is the
Davis Dam,
Parker Dam and the
Imperial Dam that regulate the release of water from the Hoover Dam.
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