Utah teams up with Federal, State and water agencies to assess the state of the Colorado River

As one of the seven states that make up the Colorado River Basin, Utah takes an active interest in this critically important river that provides water to 40 million people and 5 million acres of farmland. For the past three years, the Utah Division of Water Resources has partnered with the other basin states to form a workgroup to support climate and hydrology studies and centralize them to help guide management and planning efforts for the Colorado River.

In recent decades, increasing water demand, dry conditions and warming temperatures have impacted the Colorado River. With support and guidance from more than a dozen federal, state and local water agencies, researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder’s Western Water Assessment teamed up with leading experts to integrate nearly 800 peer-reviewed studies, agency reports and other sources to assess the state of the science and the technical methods relevant to water resources in the Colorado River Basin.

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