A consumers v. conservation controversy: Northern Colorado's Poudre River diversion

摘要

From conservation to reservoirs, aquifer banking to reuse, water managers in the American West are exploring ways to combat a prolonged drought and keep the water flowing to municipal, industrial, and agricultural consumers.rnAnd while much of the discussion is focused on the allocation of dwindling water supplies from the westward-flowing Colorado River, a proposed project east of Colorado's continental divide may garner even more attention in the next two years.The proposed Glade Reservoir near the city of Fort Collins on Colorado's eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains (known as the 'Front Range') would divert water from the Poudre (pronounced pew-der) River and store 170,000 acre feet (209,610 megalitres) in a new impoundment.