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. Doug Hendrix:

   The Colorado River is the lifeblood for about 40 million people in the southwest including northern Mexico, under full reservoir operations, we can generate enough power annually for about 600,000 households. Now we’re down to be able to generate power for about 450,000 households.

2. Bill Hasencamp:

   We thought we were good, but the last few years have been so dry that we realized those tier reductions weren't enough and aren't enough, so the two things we're focused on is how do we get through the next three years without the system crashing, and then how do we develop a long term plan to sustain The Colorado River.

3. Supervisor Travis Lingenfelter:

   These companies are actually pretty savvy in that they come out West, purchase and pick up cheap rural agricultural land, they sit on it for a little while and then they’re trying to sell Colorado River water, i do n’t think that they should be allowed to profiteer off of Arizona’s finite resources … If they’re coming after a portion of our only water supply on the river for many of our communities, we have to fight it.

4. John Fleck:

   We're now seeing the model for what the future of Colorado River Basin water use looks like, where scarcity is the norm and drought is not some special short-term thing, this is the way of life we're in now with climate change reducing the flow on Colorado River.

5. 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.