Rio Grande as plumbing

Doing daily journalism on the declining Rio Grande, I have frequent occasion to use this handy tool from the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District and the Bureau of Reclamation. It gives close-to-real time readings on all the main river and irrigation system gauges:

Rio Grande plumbing

Rio Grande plumbing

It occurs to me that its crisp reductionism rather supports my recent argument that the Rio Grande is plumbing.

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