“You’re robbing Peter to pay Paul,” Gary Wockner, head of the nonprofit Save the Colorado, said.
. That is, unless the states depending on the river found a new source of water.
Water transfers like this are already in use across the world and have been for millennia . An example in the Colorado River Basin would be the Central Arizona Project, a canal system transporting river water across hundreds of miles of desert and into the heart of Arizona for cities like Phoenix and Tucson.in the nearby Arkansas River Basin pipes water from Pueblo County more than 60 miles north to Colorado Springs, Fountain and Security.
“At one time they talked about hauling icebergs down from Alaska,” Jennifer Gimbel, senior water policy scholar at Colorado State University’s Water Center, said.
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