Feb 6, 2023 · Most recently, the Arizona state legislature passed a measure in 2021 urging Congress to investigate pumping flood water from the Mississippi River to the Colorado River to bolster its flow. Studies and modern-day engineering have proven that such projects are possible but would require decades of construction and billions of dollars.

May 14, 2012 · SALT LAKE CITY — Towing icebergs to California, diverting Mississippi River water to the Colorado Front Range or building massive plants to desalinize water from the Sea of Cortez are among the options to counter future water …

Sep 12, 2023 · ST. LOUIS (AP) — Community leaders along the Mississippi River worried that dry southwestern states will someday try to take the river’s water may soon take their first step toward blocking such a diversion.

Nov 28, 2022 · Underpinning these questions is the same fear: Will the Mississippi turn into a new Colorado River—which is so oversubscribed it never reaches its historic delta anymore?

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It flows west to east starting in Colorado and dumping into the Mississippi River. Its length of 1,469 miles (2,364 km) allows it to flow through Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. It is the sixth-longest river in the US, the second-longest tributary to the Mississippi River System, and the 45th longest river in the world.

Nov 1, 2021 · Mississippi & Colorado Rivers. The Mississippi River arguably floods too much and the Colorado River is drying up at a colossal rate. Why is this?

Feb 13, 2023 · Snowpacks in the Sierra Nevada Mountains have swelled to more than 200 percent their normal size, and snowfall across the rest of the Colorado River Basin is trending above average, too. While...

Jan 4, 2023 · Experts knew for decades that the Colorado River Basin would eventually dry up, unless the states depending on the river found a new source, like piping in water from Mississippi, and...

Dec 14, 2023 · Although the Mississippi River does originate in the state of Colorado, it does not pass through the state. Instead, it flows east from its source in the small town of Three Forks, Montana, and continues through several states until it empties into the Gulf of Mexico.