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U.S. Drought Monitor
Our primary focus on drought relates to drought impacts on water supply, including all of drainages basins in Colorado. Currently, drought awareness is most acute in the Colorado River Basin. This blog is an introduction to the data compiled by the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the varied conditions that are lumped into the term “drought”.
Colorado is "THE" Headwaters State
The term headwater means the area near the source of a river basin, i.e., the highest area in a drainage basin where the river originates. Obviously, there are headwaters in every river basin in the United States so there are many headwaters in every state, and headwaters of rivers are very common in general. So why is Colorado known as THE “Headwaters State”? It is because eight major river basins originate in Colorado, marking the beginnings of the Platte, Arkansas, and Colorado Rivers, as well as the Rio Grande.