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AWWA ACE70979

  • Water in the West: Secure Water Supplies under Growth and Scarcity
  • Conference Proceeding by American Water Works Association, 11/01/2009
  • Publisher: AWWA

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This powerpoint presentation begins by providing a brief overview of water issues in the western U.S. and a chronology of western water by decades. Future drivers of water issues will be: population growth;climate change; and,globalization. Signature issues by region are presented and include: Plains - Ogallala Aquifer;Intermountain West - Dams in Colorado;Northwest - salmon recovery;California - Bay Delta, Imperial Valley;Desert Southwest - Arizona, Las Vegas; and,Regionwide - Colorado River Compact. Colorado examples of politics of western water are listed, along with utility practices for increasing andsecuring supply.

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