The Colorado River explained in under 3 Minutes

The #ColoradoRiver is home to some of the most fascinating landscapes in the world such as the Grand Canyon or the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument but human exploitation of the #river water is currently causing one of the largest man made nature catastrophes in the world.
A series of laws, lawsuits, contacts and other political decisions which are all together coined the "Law of the River" have allowed the surrounding states to exorbitantly exploit the rivers water.
Water for irrigation and the large cities in the states surrounding the river has depleted the largest reservoirs of the river like lake Mead and Lake Powell by 75% to this day and they are not expected to refill within our lifetime. Check out my channel for more videos about the worlds largest river and subscribe if you don't want to miss any future uploads. Cheers.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:04 The Geography
1:21 The law of the River
Music:
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - DJ Williams
Golden Cage - Jimena Contreras
Hopeless - Jimena Contreras

[@ahmadrifairavenkuroki7603]

it is so sad to me to know that this quality channel have just small subscribers

[@annashealingjourney]

it is indeed interesting how quality gets undervalued

[@runescape6369]

Do one about the Jordan river!!! Love the content!

[@Michael20089]

Great video thank you

[@kingding-a-ling9794]

0:19 Arizona is marked as New Mexico... and Utah is mispelled, but a good effort. I think the way it's spelled in the video make more sense but you know "English fun"😂

[@FactSpark]

Damn, it's always annoying when easy mistakes like these happen but now it's too late. In the pie chart I spelled it right though ✌️

[@kingding-a-ling9794]

@@FactSpark don't worry I have been subscribed long enough to know that you know you are talking about😊 thank you for your content, I always learn something new.

[@kingding-a-ling9794]

@@FactSpark and honestly, I prefer the misspelling of Utah... Utha sounds phonetically correct. Spanish is my first language so I prefer your spelling. Lol

[@Warpreacher]

Do the Yangtze

[@stevelarsen2314]

It’s Utah not Utha

[@kingofrivia1248]

Its a very simple solution. We clearly need seawater desalination and giant pipelines. End of story. Agriculture in the dessert is incredibly important to feed us all so we shouldnt stop it. Nd if we power the desalination plants with green energy its going to be fine and even mitigate sea level rise, and i know it sounds silly but some scientists believe if sea water desalination actually picks up on a wide scale it might mitigate 1-3meter of sea level rise. Which is INSANE to think about. Even more effective would be damming more rivers and using that water up before it reaches the sea, but that has a very negative environmental impact.

[@christophberenotto]

That is not very simple at all, we can't develop renewable energy quickly enough to meet our current consumption before adding another massive power draw. Also desalination on a large scale increases the salinity in the bay or sea where you extract the water, Mexico probably wouldn't appreciate a massive dead zone. Desalination probably is part of the solution in some places but definitely not a simple cure-all. The easiest thing to greatly reduce river usage would be to stop buying beef

[@clay1528]

Arizona is mis-labeled New Mexico, which borders Arizona on the East. Needs correction.

[@vicvicking1990]

LasVegas is a shame

[@settings2268]

Ah yes, the state or UTHA