Editing Colorado River (section)

===Renaming of the upper Colorado River===
As late as 1921, the Colorado River upstream from the confluence with the Green River in Utah was still known as the Grand River. For over a decade, U.S. Representative [[Edward T. Taylor]] of Colorado had petitioned the [[United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce|Congressional Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce]] to rename the Grand River as the Colorado River.<ref name=congress>{{citation |url=http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/LawOfTheRiver/HearingToRenameGrandRiverColorado1921.pdf |work=Hearing Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives, Sixty Sixth Congress, Third Session, on HJ 460 |publisher=[[Government Printing Office]] |title=Renaming the Grand River, Colo. |date=February 18, 1921 |access-date=May 16, 2023 |archive-date=August 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210805160830/http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/LawOfTheRiver/HearingToRenameGrandRiverColorado1921.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=[[Colorado River Water Conservation District]] |date=December 23, 2003 |title=Many Years Ago, the Colorado River Was Just Grand |url=http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20031223/OPINION/312230302 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430050158/http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20031223/OPINION/312230302 |archive-date=April 30, 2011 |access-date=January 5, 2008 |publisher=SummitDaily}}</ref> Representatives from Wyoming, Utah, and the [[United States Geological Survey]] objected, noting that the Green River was longer and drained a larger area. Taylor argued that the Grand River should be considered the main stream, as it carried the larger volume of water.<ref name="congress"/>{{sfn|Barnes|p=104|1988}}{{refn|The average discharge of the Colorado (Grand) River at [[Cisco, Utah]], about {{convert|97|mi|km}} upstream from the Green River confluence, is {{convert|7181|cuft/s|m3/s}}; between here and the confluence, only a few small, intermittent tributaries join the river.<ref name="Ciscodischarge"/>The [[Green River (Colorado River tributary)|Green River]] has an average discharge of {{convert|6048|cuft/s|m3/s}} as measured at [[Green River, Utah]], about {{convert|117.6|mi|km}} above the confluence;<ref name="Greendischarge"/> below here the only major tributary is the [[San Rafael River]], which contributes an average of {{convert|131|cuft/s|m3/s}}, resulting in a total of {{convert|6169|cuft/s|m3/s}}, still significantly lower than the discharge of the Colorado at their confluence.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wdr.water.usgs.gov/wy2012/pdfs/09328500.2012.pdf |title=USGS Gage #09328500 on the San Rafael River near Green River, Utah |publisher=U.S. Geological Survey |work=National Water Information System |date=1910–2012 |access-date=June 22, 2013 |archive-date=September 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919112455/http://wdr.water.usgs.gov/wy2012/pdfs/09328500.2012.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>|group=n}} Taylor felt "slighted" that the Colorado River, as named, did not begin in the state of Colorado, and "he wasn't going to let Utah or Wyoming lay claim to the river's headwaters, despite the fact that the Green River is the larger drainage basin."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.colorado.edu/center/west/2017/12/20/how-grand-became-colorado-and-what-it-says-about-our-relationship-nature|title=How the 'Grand' Became the 'Colorado' And What It Says About Our Relationship To Nature|publisher=University of Colorado Boulder|date=December 20, 2017|work=KUNC|author=Runyon, Luke|accessdate=August 20, 2024}}</ref> On July 25, 1921, [[President of the United States|President]] [[Warren G. Harding]] signed House Joint Resolution 32 - "To change the name of the Grand River in Colorado and Utah to the Colorado River."<ref name="Grand_River_renamed">{{cite web |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1921-pt5-v61/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1921-pt5-v61.pdf |title=House Joint Resolution 32 - To change the name of the Grand River in Colorado and Utah to the Colorado River |work=[[Congressional Record]] |publisher=[[Sixty-seventh United States Congress]] |date=July 25, 1921 |page=4274 |access-date=May 29, 2023 |archive-date=May 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230516224606/https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1921-pt5-v61/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1921-pt5-v61.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>