[Deek]

During 25 years of that period, the Colorado River -- an important tributary that today feeds seven US states including the big cities of Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Denver, Phoenix, Tucson and Albuquerque -- flowed at a rate of 15 percent below normal.

I hope they are better at weather than they are at geography. Both Albuquerque and Denver are on the "other side" of the Great Divide from the Colorado River, and neither receives water from the Colorado's watershed.

[decimon]

I hope they are better at weather than they are at geography.

No quote marks there so that could be AFP's error. Can't tell.

[boop]

Arizona dry and hot? And for 60 years? Impossible. It’s almost like saying the Sahara will be hot and dry “for the forseable future”. Just can’t happen.

[loreldan]

I don’t know about the New Mexican part of this, but Denver and other front range cities do have water from the Colorado River pumped in through the Colorado-Big Thompson Project. Most of Colorado’s water is on the opposite side of the Divide from the big cities. So they do pump in a lot of water from the western slope to the east.

[CedarDave]

I hope they are better at weather than they are at geography. Both Albuquerque and Denver are on the "other side" of the Great Divide from the Colorado River, and neither receives water from the Colorado's watershed.

Albuquerque has for years depended on groundwater recharged from the Rio Grande to supply the city's needs. Back in the mid 1960's, diversion of water from the San Juan river basin to the Rio Grande river basin was accomplished using a series of dams, tunnels and conduits and the water stored in dams along the Rio Chama. In the past year, Albuquerque has for the first time completed a river collection and treatment system for use of surface water to augment groundwater in the city's water supply.