Running out of river.

Features Features The river was nowhere and everywhere", wrote naturalist Aldo Leopold of the Colorado river delta, the region where waters originating in the Rocky Mountains meander into the Gulf of California in Mexico. Under this proposal, the dam that creates the lake would be opened to lower its levels to the minimum at which hydropower can be produced before tunnels would be built around the dam to eventually allow the river to flow freely again. Last year, the US federal government for the first time declared a water shortage at Lake Mead, a reservoir created by damming the Colorado, triggering cuts in supply to fanners. [Extracted from the article]