Wednesday April 9, 2025
AZPM —
A new report by the UCLA Institute of Environment and Sustainability and Natural Resources Defense Council found that wastewater recycling could mitigate demand on the Colorado River.
Noah Garrison, environmental science practicum director at the UCLA Institute, is an author of the study. He said that the West is facing a two and four-million-acre-feet-per-year shortage on the River for water that is divided up among the seven Colorado River Basin states.
“We’re going to have to develop new resources and new sources of water supply in order to make up that shortage,” Garrison said.
The study aimed to figure out ways to offset that shortage to ensure a water supply.