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Arguing about water is a beloved Western pastime, but Coloradoans may soon find themselves seriously fighting over what’s left in the Colorado River.
by Paul Larmer,
Mar 06, 2009
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Arguing about water is a beloved Western pastime, but as the snowpack shrinks, Coloradoans are going to find themselves seriously fighting over what’s left in the Colorado River.
by Paul Larmer,
Mar 02, 2009
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Southern California wants to use desalination to increase its water supply, but critics think the idea needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
by Tony Davis ,
Nov 21, 2008
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Some communities are trying to keep discarded
pharmaceuticals out of the water supply by organizing
“take-back programs” for leftover drugs
by Peter Friederici,
Jul 16, 2008
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As population growth and climate change stress the
region’s water supplies, Westerners think hard about
recycling their effluent, although some worry about the possibly
harmful endocrine disrupters found in cleaned-up
effluent.
by Peter Friederici,
Jul 16, 2008
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For a long time, the West used water as if the supply were
endless, but nowadays environmentalists are finding that too much
efficiency causes problems of its own, especially in fragile
ecosystems like the Colorado River Delta.
by John Mecklin,
Feb 05, 2007
