Adapting Colorado River Basin Depletions to Available Water to Live within Our Means

The Colorado River's two largest reservoirs are drawing down because releases exceed inflows and releases adapt to reservoir elevations instead of to elevation and inflow triggers. To help slow reservoir drawdown and sustain target elevations, we introduce a new rule that adapts basin depletion...

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Main Authors: Rosenberg, D.E (Author), Wang, J. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2023
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