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Increasing demand for water strains Upper Snake River system
Speakers said the watershed is warming, runoff is coming earlier and native fisheries are under pressure as more than 100 groups joined the discussion.
Wyoming’s Mount Moran’s reflection ripples across the waters of Oxbow Bend on a crisp fall day in 2025. | (Photo by Rebecca Huntington/WyoFile) IDAHO FALLS (Idaho Capital Sun) – Tapping Snake River water to solve the crisis facing the Colorado River Basin would be a stretch, Wyoming Senior Assistant Attorney General Chris Brown told water aficionados Friday at a Jackson symposium. In fact, the Snake River system is already straining under the sa…