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How a Western Slope Colorado Water District Is Adapting to the Drought Crisis and Looking Ahead to Build Long-Term Resiliency
The district is adding wildfire mitigation, soil-moisture sensors and other projects as streamflows fall below 85 cubic feet per second, officials said.
Coming off Colorado’s lowest snowpack on record and into a period of extreme drought, producers, water managers and businesses in mountain communities have been dealing firsthand with a water crisis impacting the rivers and streams...