THE COLORADO RIVER IS IN CRISIS, AND IT’S GETTING WORSE EVERY DAY - "As temperatures rise, the mountain snowpack that feeds the Colorado river is diminishing over time and melting earlier. That decreasing runoff is more quickly soaking into Western Colorado’s parched terrain and evaporating into its hotter air. Less water is flowing downriver, depriving the ranchers, rafters, anglers and animals who depend on it.
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"For Mark Harris, general manager of the Grand Valley Water Users Association, a job that once was about supplying Colorado River water to farmers and returning some to the river has become a whirlwind of competing interests. Endangered fish need protection. Outdoors enthusiasts and environmentalists want a cleaner, healthier river. 'Explosive growth' is generating more thirsty golf courses and subdivisions. Farmers require more water to produce the same yield on drought-stricken land."
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