Tag: colorado river basin
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Colorado River Water Managers Consider Plans for Extended Drought
The severe risks of an extended drought in the Colorado River Basin—a shutdown of hydropower generation, functionally empty lakes and restrictions on water use—are forcing the basin’s seven states to consider unprecedented changes in how they manage a scarce resource. Still in the earliest stages of negotiation, two remedies have emerged, both of which seek…
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Will Congress Act to Prevent Mega-Drought in Colorado River Basin?
“We need to make sure the Colorado River Basin Study is used to combat this imbalance and potential mega-drought–we can hope and pray for rain, but we need to plan for a worst-case scenario that supplies water and protects the river in the 21st Century.”