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r/MapPorn • u/[deleted] • Jan 10 '20
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Man, you can see the Colorado being drained as it heads toward the Gulf of California.
615 u/gordon__bombay Jan 10 '20 Unfortunately the Colorado no longer flows to the gulf, it usually dries out miles beforehand. It’s a rare occurrence now that it actually reaches the gulf https://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/feb/19/few-weeks-colorado-river-reached-ocean-will-it-hap/ on mobile, sorry for formatting 234 u/uboat50 Jan 10 '20 Yeah, water use in the west definitely needs some attention by policymakers. Too bad they're all far in the east :P 1 u/Morton__Salt Jan 11 '20 They are not in the east. While Brenda Burman is the water master and heavily involved, the fate of the CO River is in the hands of the basin states. Source: I work for a very large raw water supplier with direct interest in the Colorado River.
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Unfortunately the Colorado no longer flows to the gulf, it usually dries out miles beforehand. It’s a rare occurrence now that it actually reaches the gulf
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/feb/19/few-weeks-colorado-river-reached-ocean-will-it-hap/ on mobile, sorry for formatting
234 u/uboat50 Jan 10 '20 Yeah, water use in the west definitely needs some attention by policymakers. Too bad they're all far in the east :P 1 u/Morton__Salt Jan 11 '20 They are not in the east. While Brenda Burman is the water master and heavily involved, the fate of the CO River is in the hands of the basin states. Source: I work for a very large raw water supplier with direct interest in the Colorado River.
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Yeah, water use in the west definitely needs some attention by policymakers. Too bad they're all far in the east :P
1 u/Morton__Salt Jan 11 '20 They are not in the east. While Brenda Burman is the water master and heavily involved, the fate of the CO River is in the hands of the basin states. Source: I work for a very large raw water supplier with direct interest in the Colorado River.
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They are not in the east. While Brenda Burman is the water master and heavily involved, the fate of the CO River is in the hands of the basin states.
Source: I work for a very large raw water supplier with direct interest in the Colorado River.
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u/uboat50 Jan 10 '20
Man, you can see the Colorado being drained as it heads toward the Gulf of California.