Blog: Scientists Plan for Grand Experiment in the Colorado River Delta
From the National Geographic Water Currents blog, in a post by Sandra Postel:
“Once written off as dying of thirst and beyond revival, the delta of the Colorado River will soon get a rejuvenating flood that for scientists offers a unique opportunity: the chance to study how plants, trees, birds, fisheries, and the vast delta ecosystem as a whole respond to an experimental pulse of river water.
“This flood, which will occur in the spring of 2014, is made possible by Minute 319, the add-on to the 1944 treaty between the United States and Mexico that divides the Colorado River between the two neighboring nations.”