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Smaller Colorado River Projected for Coming Decades, Study Says


December 23, 2012

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Some 40 million people depend on the Colorado River Basin for water, but warmer weather from rising greenhouse gas levels and a growing population may signal water shortages ahead. In a new study published in Nature Climate Change, climate modelers at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory predict a 10 percent drop in the Colorado River's flow in the next few decades--enough to disrupt longtime water-sharing agreements between farms and cities.Full Story

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