The Colorado River is shrinking

Re:The Colorado River is shrinking by AtlasBarfed on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @02:41PM (#27910279)

It's dangerous because at some point some idiot brained Western politician will demand a huge water pipeline from the great lakes to Arizona so they can sustain their massive city in a middle of a desert that should not be there in the first place.

Then a few decades later, the US will have its very own Aral Sea.

That particular cynicism aside, what will probably happen is that sufficient global warming will make the desert actually uninhabitable and people will migrate to the Great Lakes.

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Re:The Colorado River is shrinking by cmrdporcupine on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @02:57PM (#27910513)

I think the Aral sea was particularly vulnerable because almost all of its water was supplied from only a couple rivers. I don't think the Great Lakes would be so easily choked off, especially on the northern end of them where they blend into the Canadian Shield which is unusable for agriculture (it's mainly just granite) and so irrigation projects taking the water from there would be less likely.

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