Colorado River flowing into Mexico is drying up
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The increasingly meager flow of the Colorado River into northern Mexico imperils the Cucapa Indians and the millions of others who depend on it, writes Frank Clifford.
‘As U.S. scientists warn of a semi-permanent drought along the Colorado River Delta by midcentury, Mexico today offers a glimpse of what dry times can be like. Rationing is in effect in some areas. Farmers have abandoned crops they can no longer irrigate. Experts fear that the desert will reclaim some of the region’s most fertile land.’