GK
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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The primary purpose of the irrigation of the Colorado River is to-
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reduce the water supply
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bring water to dry areas and farms
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create aqueducts
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increase ocean depths
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Colorado River About 40 million people rely on the Colorado River for drinking water, and it irrigates 3.2 million acres within its own basin and 2.5 million acres outside of the basin in places like California’s Imperial Valley.
Detailed explanation-2: -The very bottom of the river, where it leaves the United States and enters Mexico, used to be this vast delta-wild and wet and full of beavers and marshes and estuaries. But the river now stops at a place called Morelos Dam, on the US-Mexico border.
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