Climate change means shortfalls in Colorado River water deliveries

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 06:49 in Earth & Climate

The Colorado River system supplies water to tens of millions of people and millions of acres of farmland, and has never experienced a delivery shortage. But if human-caused climate change continues to make the region drier, scheduled deliveries will be missed 60-90 percent of the time by the middle of this century, according to a pair of climate researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego...

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