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When the reservoirs are full, people blow it off, when they are draining, that's when these opportunities arise. This creates a moment of opportunity ; there are hard decisions to be made.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The vast majority of this water is used for irrigated agriculture across the basin ; there's just no way around the footprint of irrigated agriculture shrinking.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
This [ rapid decline ] scares me, it's dropping so fast that it may be overreaching our ability to cope with the problems. I did not anticipate the bottom to drop this quickly, and we're only talking about Lake Mead.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
What we need to do is recognize the science behind this reality and that this does not get better, we're all going to have to deal with less and collaborate on a new set of numbers that reflects the reality of the science today.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
There's a risk when [ water managers ] cling to the hope of a big snowpack bailing us out, we need to recognize that there's going to be less water to work with.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Even without climate change, we would have a problem because we're taking more water out than Colorado River could provide, but climate change has made the problem much worse by substantially reducing the flow in Colorado River.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
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