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3) Watershed
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Tells the story of the threats to the once-mighty Colorado River and offers solutions for the future of the American West.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Overall, the evaluation will address the following goals identified in the upper Colorado River Basin drought early warning system (UCRB DEWS) annual CIRES reports: service products; determined the value of drought-related information; and determined the value of specific products at different times during the water year.
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Phase I of the Colorado River Water Availability Study (the Study or CRWAS) provides an unprecedented foundation for water resources planning in Colorado. The Study, which began in 2008, combines the data and models developed by the CWCB and the Division of Water Resources over the last 15 years with new information on past droughts and wet spells and possible future changes in climatic conditions to produce the most comprehensive look to date at...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
The story of America’s Nile: how it once flowed freely and how human intervention has left it near exhaustion, altering the water temperature, volume, local species, and shoreline of the river Theodore Roosevelt once urged us to "leave it as it is." Plugged by no fewer than twenty-five dams, the Colorado is the world’s most regulated river drainage, providing most of the water supply of Las Vegas, Tucson, and San Diego, and much of the power...