{"id":59719,"date":"2021-10-07T07:20:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T12:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59719"},"modified":"2021-10-07T07:20:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T12:20:14","slug":"the-future-of-water-in-the-u-s-west-is-uncertain-so-planning-and-preparedness-are-critical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59719","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Water in the U.S. West is Uncertain, So Planning and Preparedness Are Critical"},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE FUTURE OF WATER IN THE U.S. WEST IS UNCERTAIN, SO PLANNING AND PREPAREDNESS ARE CRITICAL<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
Water authorities in the Western U.S. don\u2019t know what the future will bring, but they are working collaboratively and with scientific rigor to make sure they\u2019re prepared for anything.<\/div>\n
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In a thirsty Western United States that has become increasingly vulnerable to extreme weather events, rampant wildfires and years of unprecedented drought, those at the helm of the region\u2019s water agencies are accelerating their plans to grapple with climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe Western United States \u2014 especially the 40 million people who use the Colorado River \u2014 we\u2019re in the bullseye of climate change,\u201d says Cynthia Campbell, water resource management advisor for the City of Phoenix. \u201cThis is not a conceptual conversation anymore. We\u2019re in full-on adaptation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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With that reality comes the need to plan around the future of water for the people and wildlife who call the Colorado River Basin home.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t just plan for one future.\u201d \u2013<\/span>Carly Jerla<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But, says\u00a0<\/span>Carly Jerla, an operations research analyst for the United States Bureau of Reclamation\u2019s Lower Colorado Region,\u00a0\u201cyou can\u2019t just plan for one future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As climate change casts its shadow over water resources in the Western U.S., water authorities must navigate uncertainty in the form of the many possible futures in front of them. Those futures almost certainly hold more of what climate change has already brought \u2014 rising temperatures, changes in precipitation, shifts in snowpack, longer and more severe droughts, more frequent flooding \u2014 plus people\u2019s responses to those changes. Taken together, these fateful forecasts go into climate projections: models that explore an array of possible future climate conditions or scenarios.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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THE FUTURE OF WATER IN THE U.S. WEST IS UNCERTAIN, SO PLANNING AND PREPAREDNESS ARE CRITICAL Water authorities in the Western U.S. don\u2019t know what the future will bring, but they are working collaboratively and with scientific rigor to make sure they\u2019re prepared for anything. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of the Interior In […]<\/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":[4,7],"tags":[6513,31914,866,16547],"class_list":["post-59719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-ensia","tag-sharon-udasin","tag-water","tag-water-shortages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59719","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=59719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59720,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59719\/revisions\/59720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}