SEVERAL US STATES have reached an agreement to cut the amount of water they take from the dwindling Colorado River, which is threatened by a quarter of a century of drought and worsening climate conditions.
An acre-foot refers to an acre covered in water a foot deep — around 1.23 million litres or about half an Olympic-size swimming pool. The Colorado River runs through seven US states and Mexico, supplying drinking water and hydropower and irrigating some of the country’s most fertile farmland.Human-caused climate change means the once-bountiful snowpack that feeds the river has dwindled.
For years the states and the federal government have been deadlocked on how to square this circle and equitably divvy up the shrinking supply, even as the region has become more arid and river levels have dropped.
Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)
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