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Drought is a train moving at us at three miles per hour, Jennifer Pitt, director of the Colorado River Program for the Environmental Defense Fund, says, and if we dont get off the track, its our own damn fault.
(They've been busy planting trees, timed to germinate with the water's release.) "It is sort of overwhelming, and I think it sheds light on a sort of global interest in the Colorado River completing that journey again," says Jennifer Pitt of the Environmental Defense Fund's Colorado River Project.
Date: May 21, 2014
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
States dependent on Colorado River consider conservation effort
"The time for action is now," said Jennifer Pitt, head of the Environmental Defense Fund's Colorado River Project. "Communities that depend on the Colorado River for water supply or as the foundation of a $26-billion recreation economy cannot afford to wait."
Jennifer Pitt, Colorado River Project director for the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund, warns that 2012 is a wake-up call for how we have to adjust to climate change and extreme water supply fluctuations, especially in the Colorado River Basin, where flows are at lower-than-average levels.