Synonyms for colorado river
col·orado riv·er

Princeton's WordNet

1. Colorado, Colorado Rivernoun

   a river in Texas; flows southeast into the Gulf of Mexico

2. Colorado, Colorado Rivernoun

   an important river in the southwestern United States; rises in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and flows southwest through Utah into Arizona (where it flows through the Grand Canyon) and then southward through the southern tip of Nevada, then forming the border between California and Arizona and finally into Mexico where it empties into the Gulf of California; the main source of water in the southwestern United States

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1. Bill Hasencamp:

   There's a long-term deficit beyond just a short-term drought that we have to come to grips with, there's just not enough water in the Colorado River to meet the demands that were designed in the 1922 Compact.

2. Christopher Castro:

   Even a good monsoon will not alleviate much the large shortfalls in reservoir storage here in the Colorado River Basin, as stream flow is mostly dependent on winter snow pack in the upper portion of Colorado River Basin.

3. Brad Udall:

   Colorado River's very significant, colorado River's something that those of us in the climate community have been worried about for over a decade, based on declining flows due to climate change.

4. Isla Simpson:

   We need to be very concerned about the future of the Colorado River.

5. Paul Miller:

   This one good year is not enough to alleviate the stress on the Colorado River, it’s going to take multiple of these consecutive above-average years to fill a lot of the major reservoirs, especially Lake Powell.