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Floating Ideas for Saving the Ever-Diminishing Colorado River<\/p>\n

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Did someone say pipeline?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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By\u00a0Lawrence Karol<\/a><\/div>\n
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\nAs with many other resources that we used to take for granted back in the 20th century, water is becoming more scarce. That\u2019s particularly true in the case of the Colorado River which seven states and roughly 25 million people depend upon for their daily water needs.
\nBuilding a pipeline to solve rising water demand is kind of like buying a bunch of typewriters and bicycles to increase newspaper circulation. It\u2019s going to be slow and expensive, and it doesn\u2019t really matter if it works because it\u2019s not a long-term solution.<\/q>
\nThere are a number of ideas floating around to tackle the growing demand on the river, butThe New York Times<\/em><\/a>\u00a0referred to one of those proposals as \u201cmore extreme and contentious.\u201d
\nThe idea in question is said to be in a report that\u2019s expected to be released by the\u00a0Bureau of Reclamation\u00a0<\/a>that suggests building a 600-mile pipeline from the Missouri River to Denver. It\u2019s a notion that reminds some people of the water projects of\u2014you guessed it\u2014the 20th century.
\nFor more on this, check out the rest of this article at Take Part ….
\nhttps:\/\/www.takepart.com\/article\/2012\/12\/12\/floating-ideas-dealing-diminishing-flow-colorado-river?cmpid=lco-fb
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