Historic water release brings surge of joy to Colorado River Delta

ALONG THE RIO COLORADO – They came to see the river return, a half-century after U.S. dams kept it from flowing into Mexico.

“Since I was a kid, my father told me that long ago there was water, but I do not remember that,” he said.

He stood Thursday next to the San Luis Bridge over the river that links Baja California with Sonora. The Colorado now carried enough water for kids to stand in waist-deep. “I feel great,” Bazua said.

We couldn’t agree with the headline more. Click on the link above to see Dale Turner’s extraordinary before and after shot of the riverbed.