{"id":4928,"date":"2015-01-27T21:42:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T02:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4928"},"modified":"2015-01-27T21:42:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T02:42:27","slug":"a-year-without-the-colorado-river-as-seen-by-economists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4928","title":{"rendered":"A Year Without the Colorado River, as Seen by Economists"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Year Without the Colorado River, as Seen by Economists<\/a><\/h3>\n

Imagine if each tap that delivered water from the Colorado River \u2013 whether to a farm, a factory, or a home \u2013 suddenly went dry for a year. What would happen to the West\u2019s economy?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s pretty much the question a team of researchers at Arizona State University set out to answer \u2013 and the results are startling.<\/p>\n

The region would lose $1.4 trillion \u2013 that\u2019s trillion, with a \u201ct\u201d \u2013 in economic activity, along with 16 million jobs.<\/p>\n

Each of the six states \u2013 Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming \u2013 plus seven southern California counties supplied by the Colorado River would see losses to their gross state product (GSP) of half or more. Nevada\u2019s would drop by 87 percent.<\/p>\n

Commissioned by\u00a0Protect the Flows<\/a>, a coalition of over 1,000 businesses,\u00a0the study<\/a>\u00a0reveals how crucial the Colorado River is not only to these seven states that make up the watershed, but also to the nation as a whole.<\/p>\n

Of all the water used in the basin, 43% of agriculture\u2019s supply and 41% of municipal and industrial supplies come from the Colorado River.<\/p>\n

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A Year Without the Colorado River, as Seen by Economists Imagine if each tap that delivered water from the Colorado River \u2013 whether to a farm, a factory, or a home \u2013 suddenly went dry for a year. What would happen to the West\u2019s economy? That\u2019s pretty much the question a team of researchers at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2965,2085,271,866],"class_list":["post-4928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-colorado-river","tag-economists","tag-environment-2","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4929,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4928\/revisions\/4929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}