[resist_futility]

Had to look up the Colorado river because it wasn't big enough to even make the list, it's 37th in US alone. Wow, so many people rely on such a small river.

[sulam]

So much of the Colorado’s water is taken, this is highly influenced by where they measure.

[oblio]

The reasonable place to measure is somewhere near the river's mouth.

[snowwrestler]

That would be tough for the Colorado; it’s my understanding that so much water gets taken out upstream that all that remains is a trickle in the Mexican desert that sometimes evaporates completely before reaching the sea.

[FredPret]

What if all the water has been siphoned off by then? We could measure actual flow at the mouth, and theoretical "untouched" flow if no water was diverted or dammed

[ijidak]

I thought the same thing.

I live in Vegas.

Not very comforting.

I expected the Colorado to be in the top 50.

Shocked it's not even in the list!