Thursday, January 22, 2009

Will Colorado River shortage depopulate Phoenix?


A review in Science of the new book Dead Pool - Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West quotes the author James Lawrence Powell as warning that the over-appropriation of Colorado River water could result in Phoenix being depopulated like "a Grapes of Wrath-like exodus in reverse." Powell argues there is only enough water to fill Lake Mead but not Lake Powell, so the latter should be eliminated before it just fills with silt.

Dead Pool
Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West
by James Lawrence Powell
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2008. 298 pp. $27.50, £19.95. ISBN 9780520254770.

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