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On the Colorado River, will New Mexico be left in the dust?

The Colorado River supplies water for more than 36 million people in two countries and seven states, including New Mexico. As river flows and reservoir levels decline due to drought, warming and over-demand, states are wrangling over how to voluntarily conserve water use before reservoir levels reach critically low levels and trigger mandatory cutbacks. New Mexico […]

GUEST COLUMN: Colorado s green industry leads in water conservation | Columnists

Despite recent storms dropping snow on the east side of the Continental Divide, Colorado’s water supply situation is still in a tenuous situation, with much of the state still experiencing drought conditions. Most of our water on the Front Range comes from the West Slope. As The Gazette reported in its enlightening three-part series on drought in Colorado, our climate is changing, with the potential for greater extremes and hotter droughts. Water availability is and will always be a challenge in our state, and wise water use must be a permanent way of life. I’m proud to say the landscape industry, in collaboration with water utilities across the state, has developed solutions to stretch this finite resource.

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