The Colorado River Basin

River/stream
Aqueduct/canal
A map shows course of the Colorado River through and the seven U.S. states that draw water from it.

WYO.

Salt Lake City

UPPER BASIN

NEV.

UTAH

Colorado River

Denver

CALIF.

COLO.

Las Vegas

Lake

Powell

Lake

Mead

Santa Fe

Los Angeles

LOWER BASIN

ARIZ.

N.M.

San Diego

Phoenix

METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Tucson

BAJA

CALIFORNIA

SONORA

200 MILES

A map shows course of the Colorado River through and the seven U.S. states that draw water from it.

WYO.

UPPER

BASIN

Salt Lake City

Colorado

River

NEV.

UTAH

Denver

CALIF.

COLO.

Las

Vegas

Lake

Powell

Los Angeles

Lake

Mead

Santa Fe

ARIZ.

N.M.

San Diego

Phoenix

LOWER

BASIN

Tucson

BAJA

CALIFORNIA

SONORA

200 MILES

Metropolitan Water District of Southern California service area shown in purple.

Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy, Center for Geospatial Solutions, USGS National Hydrography Dataset, Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography

Sean Greene LOS ANGELES TIMES