The Colorado River currently supports 40 million people and $1.4 trillion in annual economic activity in seven U.S. states and Mexico — but it was never intended to be stretched so thin, and now, as the region weathers its driest winter in recent history, a reckoning has arrived.
  The Colorado River currently supports 40 million people and $1.4 trillion in annual economic activity in seven U.S. states and Mexico — but it was never intended to be stretched so thin, and now, as the region weathers its driest winter in recent history, a reckoning has arrived.