A symbol of Hollywood cinema is in danger of disappearing forever: the Colorado River reservoir has dropped to alarming levels and the situation continues to worsen each summer. Everyone remembers the images of the majestic stream told on the big screen. But now the era of the cowboys is over. Nowadays the river flows in a concrete channel that diverts most of its flow to distant California farm fields. Flowing downstream, Colorado dries up in the summer before crossing the US-Mexico border. The Colorado crisis is not just a question of amarcord: the watercourse is in fact the thermometer of the water supply in the western United States. The slow drying up of the river risks fueling a series of political disputes between the states bordering the basin. After all, the problem appears simple: the water rights guaranteed on paper are higher than the amount of water that flows into the river in the dry season. And the future is not bright. Supplies cannot be increased to meet current agricultural needs, let alone to tackle climate change. According to the UN, without a reduction in polluting emissions, by 2050 the average flow of Colorado could be reduced by 31 percent compared to the historical average.
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A symbol of Hollywood cinema is in danger of disappearing forever: the Colorado River reservoir has dropped to alarming levels and the situation continues to worsen each summer. Everyone remembers the images of the majestic stream told on the big screen. But now the era of the cowboys is over. Nowadays the river flows in a concrete channel that diverts most of its flow to distant California farm fields. Flowing downstream, Colorado dries up in the summer before crossing the US-Mexico border. The Colorado crisis is not just a question of amarcord: the watercourse is in fact the thermometer of the water supply in the western United States. The slow drying up of the river risks fueling a series of political disputes between the states bordering the basin. After all, the problem appears simple: the water rights guaranteed on paper are higher than the amount of water that flows into the river in the dry season. And the future is not bright. Supplies cannot be increased to meet current agricultural needs, let alone to tackle climate change. According to the UN, without a reduction in polluting emissions, by 2050 the average flow of Colorado could be reduced by 31 percent compared to the historical average.
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A symbol of Hollywood cinema is in danger of disappearing forever: the Colorado River reservoir has dropped to alarming levels and the situation continues to worsen each summer. Everyone remembers the images of the majestic stream told on the big screen. But now the era of the cowboys is over. Nowadays the river flows in a concrete channel that diverts most of its flow to distant California farm fields. Flowing downstream, Colorado dries up in the summer before crossing the US-Mexico border. The Colorado crisis is not just a question of amarcord: the watercourse is in fact the thermometer of the water supply in the western United States. The slow drying up of the river risks fueling a series of political disputes between the states bordering the basin. After all, the problem appears simple: the water rights guaranteed on paper are higher than the amount of water that flows into the river in the dry season. And the future is not bright. Supplies cannot be increased to meet current agricultural needs, let alone to tackle climate change. According to the UN, without a reduction in polluting emissions, by 2050 the average flow of Colorado could be reduced by 31 percent compared to the historical average.
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A symbol of Hollywood cinema is in danger of disappearing forever: the Colorado River reservoir has dropped to alarming levels and the situation continues to worsen each summer. Everyone remembers the images of the majestic stream told on the big screen. But now the era of the cowboys is over. Nowadays the river flows in a concrete channel that diverts most of its flow to distant California farm fields. Flowing downstream, Colorado dries up in the summer before crossing the US-Mexico border. The Colorado crisis is not just a question of amarcord: the watercourse is in fact the thermometer of the water supply in the western United States. The slow drying up of the river risks fueling a series of political disputes between the states bordering the basin. After all, the problem appears simple: the water rights guaranteed on paper are higher than the amount of water that flows into the river in the dry season. And the future is not bright. Supplies cannot be increased to meet current agricultural needs, let alone to tackle climate change. According to the UN, without a reduction in polluting emissions, by 2050 the average flow of Colorado could be reduced by 31 percent compared to the historical average.
Continue reading in the weekly The Post Internazionale-TPI: click here.