Blog: Dealing with Drought Takes a Comprehensive Approach
From the [Central Arizona Project] CAP Blog: Water Ways and Power Lines:
“Since 2000, the Colorado River basin has endured the worst drought in centuries, yet Colorado River water users in California, Nevada and Arizona have not had to reduce the volume of water they receive from the river. How has this been possible? Largely because our predecessors constructed a system of reservoirs (including Lake Mead and Lake Powell) that allow the Colorado River basin to store four times the amount of water it receives in a normal year.”