The Colorado River Delta

Five years ago the US and Mexico cooperated on an unprecedented project: the release of water from the Morelos Dam outside of Yuma into the long desiccated Colorado River Delta. The water wasn’t allocated for cities or irrigation: it was for purely environmental purposes - to measure the revitalizing effect that just a little bit of water could have. Although the release only lasted a few months, the work on revitalization has continued. We’ll check in on the work and see what the long-term impact has been.
Producer: Vanessa Barchfield
Videographer: Andrew Brown
Editor: Martín Rubio & Mitchell Riley

[@murrrriel]

Ahh, whenever I get a little bummed out, I look for stories about ecological restoration. It's a glimmer of hope

[@odoylerules4503]

😅

[@Vegatable]

Heartbreaking how the West has managed water. The river through here used to be huge, sometimes in the hundred thousands of CFS. It would split off into different smaller streams and come together again (a process known as "braiding"), creating a large lush riparian habitat with one of the most diverse ecosystems on Earth.

[@vlillac]

It's a SHAME how Mexico, Columbia etc. has sold their countries and their people to the drug cartels. Who destroy everything they touch pure greed and Power...

[@arrrgonot7801]

@@vlillac not any different than corporate America, gas and oil for instance.

[@felipericketts]

It is a happy thought to think that some significant amount of restoration can be achieved. Perhaps a trickle of water may once again reach the Sea of Cortez on a regular basis. Restoring our shared environment is a very hopeful thing for all of us and all those that will follow!

[@Tzor17]

Natives remember what it once was.

[@xaviercopeland2789]

No they don’t. No one was alive at its height.

[@ClickLikeAndSubscribe]

The 1/3 of the water from NGOs (@2:18). It's that USA NGOs or Mexican? Are the water rights purchased from American or Mexican farmers? It sounds like Mexico is doing double of what we're pitching in.

[@johnkeviljr9625]

There s/b a permanent flow for the positive environmental effects, at the very least.

[@R6-D2]

The way it should be!

[@ClickLikeAndSubscribe]

This is so amazing to see that mankind can do more than destroy!

[@MonkeySpecs301]

so whats the truth here, that america diverted most of the water for themselves?

[@mariocisneros911]

Yes , they are thieves. They never make tv programs showing what harm they've done to the environment

[@Dajjalist33]

Climate change huh...they destroyed a lush riverdelta ...look at pictures of the Colorado river delta before the dams...then build huge metropolitan city's that can be sustainable in a desert climate....hmm...yeah..its my gas powerd car...lol..

[@marquefan1]

@@mariocisneros911 Can you imagine that to the Rhine River? (Switzerland, Germany, Holland). The demise of the Colorado River is the result of US greed and mismanagement.

[@jacobhuston5133]

1:16 Sam Elliot is that you??

[@bottel01]

Vote, you all have democracy vote for snow packs on the mountain tops and vote for more, Just plain old rain water, you people have the power to vote, you know you can vote to change the world, so Go out and vote for water? Ya!!! Right. each person can vote 5 times on one item. That should do it. VOTE.

[@deannelson9565]

As a duck hunter from North Dakota I would like to point out our ducks don't go there. Wrong flyway dude.

[@salvadorgarcia4327]

Did Southeastern Ca. farmers contribute water to this pulse ?, and did the Baja Ca. Indegeounis gentlman ' fisherman' ever get a response from President Obama concerning the Colorado Delta a few years ago?

[@agentx7138]

Nature will win out eventually every day the river basin is slowly back filling itself and clearing that will become unprofitable humans fight a battle but nature will win at some point maybe after we are gone...

[@lorrainegarcia5277]

There’s not gonna be a Colorado River anymore it’s drying up so fast we’re not even getting enough snow fall in the Rockies to send the water down the Rio Grand the END time are comming

[@stephenmcdowell9210]

American does everything big, but big isn't always the best way to go,the world's population is going to be the end of civilisation, as we know it ,I know 3 couple's that are friends of mine these 6 people have produced 40 children ,all these children have children of there own about 100 to 120 more children ,,this can not be sustainable, all these people need food and water ,we as a human race are our own worse enemy, and I can't see this being a good thing in a 150 years time ,I'm glad I won't be here then Steve ,,,,,

[@Jemalacane0]

Yay! Let's squander freshwater by releasing it into the ocean. Sometimes, when a stream does not look like it's flowing, it's simply flowing underground.

[@pahwraith]

It's not squandered it helps migratory birds and helps trees snd plants grow to create new forests. It would just evaporate into the air eventually, anyway.

[@Jemalacane0]

@@pahwraith It would be much better used for drinking water, irrigation, and fire fighting.

[@pahwraith]

@@Jemalacane0 it is, for 11 months of the year and in non-drought years. Also people are buyin the water from farmers to get this water release. Farmers wouldn't sell it if they really needed it.

[@vlillac]

Sometimes the Mexican cartels have taken over Mexico Colombian the rest of South America a poverty stricken WAR ZONE... remember the rescue War for El Chapo's son and the Mexican Army raising the white flag of surrender to criminal cartels how come no one ever talks about that.... hmmmm??

[@antred11]

@@vlillac WTF does that have to do with the subject this video is about??