Water restrictions may be the future for the 40 million people who depend on the Colorado River.
This story is one part of a broader series about ways to save water from the drying Colorado River.There’s lower case demand management and then there’s upper case Demand Management, an official policy, John Berggren, a water policy analyst for the nonprofit Western Resource Advocates, said.
One approach, he said, would be to create a national water strategy, rather than depending on disparate approaches for different river basins and water sources. , a fraction of the cost for neighboring farmers. With water so affordable, there’s less reason to conserve the resource.“That’s the quickest, easiest and, as far as I’m concerned, one of the best solutions,” he said.
“We need to do everything we can on the demand side before we do any of these things,” Famiglietti said.
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