Boulder Considers Trying To Plan For Global Warming
Concerns About Water Supply Force Planners To Consider 'What If'
POSTED: 1:53 pm MST December 2,
2007
UPDATED: 9:10 pm MST December 2,
2007
BOULDER -- Boulder city planners, trying to anticipate the impact of global warming, want to plan for a drier future. Like most Colorado cities Boulder depends on snowmelt, and for it come to come on schedule, for much of its water supply. The Daily Camera reports Boulder may well be the first city anywhere that has tried to model the potential effects of global warming on a scale small enough to predict how its water supply will be altered by warming temperatures and changing precipitation patterns.
A recently completed study indicates Boulder probably has enough flexibility to meet future water needs, except under the most disastrous scenarios. Water expert Lee Rozaklis said that's because Boulder has been taking the problem seriously for years.To read the full Daily Camera story, click here.
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