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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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