The Colorado River is shrinking

Re:The Colorado River is shrinking by D13Fd on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @01:37PM (#27909411)

I think the question is how much less water would be used with a modern irrigation system rather than flood irrigation.

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Re:The Colorado River is shrinking by tfigment on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @01:48PM (#27909548)

Ostensibly you could grow hydroponically and have very little waste but order of magnitude cost increase in power needs. Every other solution falls in between I guess.

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Re:The Colorado River is shrinking by ashtonkem on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @02:02PM (#27909756)

Electricity is orders of magnitude easier to move than water, and its price is dropping too.

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