News Headline
Huge water pulse to bring Colorado river back from dead
Source
New Scientist
Publication Date
2014-03-17
FROM above it looks like a meandering yellow scar. On either side lie lush green polygons – the irrigated fields of the Mexicali valley just south of the US border, where tomatoes, cucumbers and onions grow in what should be a desert. The dusty smear running in between used to be the Colorado river. It's been decades since it has reached the sea.