Furthermore, the area is at even greater risk of biodiversity loss thanks to potential plans to divert the river upstream to irrigate crops during the dry season.
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Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
2 Apr. 2026
The dam was built to control floods from the Colorado River while also irrigating the Southwest.
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