Colorado River

Las Vegas had similar problems. It was part of a great desert until Lake Mead was created by the Hoover Dam built on the Colorado River.

Today, exactly twenty years ago to the hour, I risked my life to save a woman who was drowning in the rapids of the Colorado River.

a member of a North American Indian people living around the mouth of the Colorado river .

As the Colorado River Basin enters the eleventh year of its drought, the city's reliance on the river may soon become a serious problem.

In Arizona, man-made dams across the Colorado River have made two large lakes in the middle of the dry desert country.

Straddling the Arizona and Nevada borders on the Colorado River, the Hoover dam was the largest project ever attempted in the US.

However it would also encounter its greatest enemy ever, Caesar's Legion, across the Colorado River.

Erosion caused by the Colorado River, which cuts through the middle of the canyon, has resulted in a majestic canyon and rock formations.

With barely a drop on its own doorstep, the city secured supplies from lakes to the north and the Colorado River to the east.

Highest concrete arch dam in the U. S. , built on the Colorado River at the Arizona-Nevada border.

Visitors to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona admire its breathtaking colors, rock formations and cliff.

Maria : Yes. I've kayaked on the Colorado River, and I've camped in the Rocky Mountains many times.

Water rushes around rocks as the Colorado River continues to cut its way through the Grand Canyon.

The Colorado River, lifeblood of seven western states, is already as overdrawn as the federal treasury.

Like many of the other western cities on this list, Phoenix is extremely dependent on water imported from the Colorado River.

assisting in the settlement of Indian water rights claims; and exchanging water to assist Colorado River communities.

The Colorado River is one of the most powerful rivers in the world.

The Green River (on the left) meets the Colorado River in the middle of Canyonlands National Park, Utah, in this image from GeoEye.

Ancestral Puebloan granaries, Nankoweap Canyon, Colorado River, Marble Canyon, Grand Canyon National Park.

The Kaibab trail leading to tip-off point, which then takes us sharply down to the Colorado River.

These rivers link together and form the beginnings of the Colorado River.

By then, however, Mulholland had turned his attention east to the Colorado River as another potential source of water for Los Angeles.

The Colorado River flows through the Grand Canyon. The Canyon offers a lot of information about the physical history of Earth.

The trail descends into the inner gorge, revealing new colors as we approach the Colorado River.

A bend in the Colorado River horseshoes around a sandstone butte in Grand Canyon National Park.

The San Juan River runs 400 miles from Colorado through New Mexico and into Utah where it flows into the Colorado River.

In the US, there are increasing disputes with Mexico over the sinking levels of water in the Colorado river.

The Colorado River flows through the canyon.

Steve: The grand Canyon. It's amazing. It's very big and the Colorado river runs through it.

The Colorado River helped form the awe-inspiring canyon.

Lake Mead is a man-made body of water fed by the Colorado River.

B: We are going to climb a cliff on the Colorado River.

look down I looked down to the Colorado River about 2 kilometres below me.

I looked down to the Colorado River about 2 kilometres below me.

Yes. I've kayaked on the Colorado River.

Modern day Los Angeles, for example, obtains its water supply from the Colorado River, through a system of aqueducts over 200 miles long.

Viewing the Water Resources Utilization and Manage-ment in the Yellow River with the Colorado River in USA as a reference

A 1, 900-foot span across the Colorado River shadows the Hoover Dam

Horseshoe Bend on the Colorado River