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California's Stake in the Colorado River a
Author(s) -
Cole D. E.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
groundwater
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.84
H-Index - 94
eISSN - 1745-6584
pISSN - 0017-467X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1966.tb01602.x
Subject(s) - hydrology (agriculture) , archaeology , water development , interbasin transfer , geography , water resources , drainage basin , geology , ecology , cartography , geotechnical engineering , biology
California has an enormous stake in the Colorado River. In the southern portion of the State, 80 percent of the water used is furnished by the Colorado River, and this area needs still more water in the immediate years ahead. But it cannot get more from the natural supply of the Colorado. The river is already over‐committed, and California in fact may have to cut back on its present take from that source. This is not the Colorado River in Texas; Los Angeles has gone hundreds of miles to get water, but has not reached that far east‐yet.