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| Nebraska announces $500M plan to claim water from Colorado |
| 2022-01-11 |
| [aol.com] LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts announced a $500 million plan Monday to divert water out of Colorado under a 99-year-old compact between the states that allows Nebraska to seize access to Colorado land along the South Platte River and build canals. Ricketts said Nebraska would invoke its rights under the South Platte River Compact amid concerns that Colorado's plans for the river could reduce water flows into his state by as much as 90%, taking a potentially huge toll on Nebraska's agricultural and power industries and likely affecting water supplies in the state's two largest cities, Omaha and Lincoln. "We are very concerned about what is going to happen with these projects," Ricketts, a Republican, said at a news conference. The reduced streamflows "are going to have a dramatic impact on our ability to feed the world." |
| Posted by:746 |
| #5 Platte water ends up in the Mississippi. "Too thick to drink, too thin to plow." /Potato Brumbough |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-01-11 13:47 |
| #4 So we need to distinguish between Colorado water and Colorado River water. I'd guess Colorado River water and the water Nebraska wants come from different sides of the Continental Divide. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-01-11 13:25 |
| #3 ^ I'm not sure this watershed supplies any Colorado River shipments that CA might eventually get? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-01-11 10:05 |
| #2 CO sells this water to CA. Maybe they can sell more pot to make up the revenue shortfall? |
| Posted by: Angstrom 2022-01-11 09:35 |
| #1 "...Mmmm, begun, the water wars have." Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2022-01-11 04:52 |