The EPA veto of Colorado's massive Two Forks Dam ended the era of big infrastructure and forced Denver to take the lead in urban water conservation.
The Colorado tops 2013 "most endangered" list from American Rivers
The next mayor of Los Angeles needs to be a conservationist as Southern California faces a dry spring.
Lake Mead hovered at around 1,122.39 feet, or roughly 53% full at the close of January, 2013, more than 55 feet lower than the comparable January closing in 2002, the year when it was finally recognized that a long term dry spell was about to grip the Colorado River system.
A new Colorado River study highlights the need for conservation while Interior has just rubber-stamped a massive groundwater exploitation project in rural Nevada and similar projects are planned across the dry West.
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