Colorado River Is in Danger of a Parched Future

The Colorado River is a lifeline. It flows from the central Rocky Mountains of Colorado and Wyoming through five other U.S. states, 11 U.S. national parks and two Mexican states on a 1,450-mile-long journey that supplies water to 40 million people. And the river is endangered. Humans are drawing unsustainable amounts of water from this source, but abnormally low precipitation and hot, dry conditions have been shrinking it for years. The historical record, for shows it might drop to roughly four million acre-feet in one year and climb to about 24 million acre-feet in another all because of a varying snow pack.

 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/colorado-river-is-in-danger-of-a-parched-future/

I think that paying attention to and being able to come up with alternatives to things, like in this case if the river dries up, then there needs to be an alternative in place when that happens, and not coming up with one when it's a little late.

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  1. AnonymousMarch 3, 2020 at 7:43 PM

    This is crazy. We should definitely monitor how much water we are taking from the river considering it is such an important piece of the land. Are there any other water sources that we could use to decrease the amount taken from the Colorado River?

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