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Re:The Colorado River is shrinking by cmrdporcupine on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @01:39PM (#27909435)
There's really three different ecozones we're talking about here. Coastal, interior, and northern. Yes, there's lots of rain along the coast, but that doesn't help the interior. And it's pretty damned hard to build the infrastructure for rain storage on the scale we're talking about.

That said, the recent heat wave hit the coast pretty badly, too.

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Re:The Colorado River is shrinking by dleslie on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @01:41PM (#27909459)
The southern interior hosts a desert; definitely not a lot of rain there. ;)

We're building rain storage right now, in the form of Site C.

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Re:The Colorado River is shrinking by cmrdporcupine on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @01:47PM (#27909539)
Wouldn't you say Site C more of a glacial-melt supplied reservoir?

EDIT: It's a dam built on the Peace, which is out of the Rockies, on the other side from most of BC. And a long way from anywhere in B.C. that will be requiring drinking water or irrigation really. The farm land that would be irrigated I would imagine would be primarily on the Alberta side.

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Re:The Colorado River is shrinking by dleslie on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @07:26PM (#27913442)
It's a snow-pack reservoir, I think.

The intended use of the water is for power generation, but I think dams are clear model of how to build rain water reservoirs going forward.

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