Stuff I wrote elsewhere: Basin Study – it’s conservation for now
Posted on | December 13, 2012 | 1 Comment
From this morning’s Albuquerque Journal, my distillation of the Colorado River Basin Study’s key message:
Towing icebergs from Alaska or building a giant pipeline from the Missouri River won’t bail out the western United States from its growing water supply crisis, federal officials said Wednesday.
Instead, conservation by the region’s farms and cities offers the quickest and most cost-effective way for New Mexico and the other states of the Colorado River Basin to close the growing gap between water demand and supply, according to a new study done jointly by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the seven Colorado River Basin states.
Related posts:
- How much water is there in the Colorado, and who needs what?
- River Beat: Colorado River Basin Supply and Demand
- Why the Basin Study is not about a pipeline to the Missouri
- Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: the Colorado River’s supply-demand problem
- Bureau of Reclamation and water in the rivers
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December 25th, 2012 @ 5:09 pm
[...] It’s especially interesting given the (to me) striking assertion in the Basin Study that building a pipeline from the Missouri, or towing icebergs down from Alaska, is not the [...]