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Scientists warn global warming will intensify Southwest droughts
By Patrick O'Driscoll,
USA TODAY
Updated 2/21/20075:51PM ET
DENVER — "The fast-growing states of the arid Southwest must plan for more severe droughts and make difficult water management choices — choices made even tougher by global warming, says a new scientific assessment of the Colorado River Basin.
"The report Wednesday by a National Research Council committee says agriculture, which comprises 80% of the West's water use, is the likeliest target for shifting use to urban needs in the fastest-growing region in the USA. But it cautions that "the availability of agricultural water is finite." It adds that rising population and water demands "will inevitably result in increasingly costly, controversial and unavoidable trade-off choices" in managing a shrinking resource."
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1 comment:
And yet greedy developers keep right on building suburbs in Las Vegas and Phoenix. It really burns me up when they then ask to have some of the Great Lakes' water funneled their way. Some places just weren't meant for large-scale human habitation. Grr...
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