Hi Friends of Colorado's Rivers, For years we have watched the saga playing out on…
The Water/Energy Nexus in the Southwest U.S.
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Here’s a good short read in the Scientific American about the co-mingling impacts of energy use and water use in the Southwest U.S. Negative impacts to the Colorado River are at the center of this chaos. Here’s the link: How Saving Energy Means Conserving Water in U.S. West
Our good friends at Western Resource Advocates provide yet another fact-driven power quote:
“thermoelectric power plants in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah consumed an estimated 292 million gallons of water a day in 2005 – approximately equal to the water consumed by Denver, Phoenix, and Albuquerque, combined.”