Estimates are it'll cost double what water imported from northern California or the Colorado River costs now.
The city imports 90 percent of its water from the Colorado River and the state water project.
That makes it an important part of the plan to lessen the region's reliance on the Colorado river.
When it comes to Colorado river water, it is high time the rules of the game were changed.
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To appreciate the Grand Canyon you have to go into it, and that means getting on the Colorado River.
In fact, U.S. authorities believe a pneumatic cannon fired each canister 500 feet over the Colorado River from Mexico.
Bud Guthrie, an amateur gold hunter, found it while prospecting with his metal detector in 1989 in a Colorado River canyon.
For excitement, instead of whitewater rafting down the Colorado River, he takes his family on a houseboat ride through the Erie Canal.
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But thanks to wholesale abuse of the Colorado river, the theft of water from upland California and massive federal subsidies, it is blooming.
The impressive views continue as it speeds alongside the cliffs and canyons of the upper Colorado River, before descending into the deserts of Utah and Nevada.
The paper reported the combined ashes would be spread over where the Colorado River and the Little Colorado River merge in the Grand Canyon.
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She oversees a critical juncture in the Colorado River Valley, stewarding the very essence of what makes life possible in the arid American Southwest.
Finally, the roar of the Colorado River comes into earshot and a tempestuous rush of mint-green water races through the nadir of the canyon.
And with the Colorado River basin entering its eighth year of sustained drought, it doesn't look like the reservoir will be filling up again soon.
Historically, water has been cheap and mostly plentiful to Californians, who use water not only from rivers within the state but also from the Colorado River.
And besides, they say, the water from the Colorado River -- the city's main supply -- already has to be treated to remove all types of pollution.
As it is, the food we export to China consumes around 41 trillion liters of water each year, or twice the discharge of the Colorado River, BCG says.
Glen Canyon dam, which impounds the waters of the Colorado river, was opened for several days starting on March 4th in order to replenish the river's sediment levels.
Barry Goldwater's body will be cremated and a newspaper reports his ashes will be mixed with those of his first wife and spread in the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon.
These unsung passages function as the smaller veins feeding into the main artery of the Grand Canyon, the up-to-18-mile-wide, mile-deep gash in the earth through which 227 miles of the Colorado River snakes.
For most of the past century, agriculture has been the winner of the water wars, receiving the great bulk of water from the Colorado River and its two large reservoirs at Lake Mead and Lake Powell.
The project is intended to give the authorities the ability to draw water from the Colorado River for the Las Vegas area and guard against water quality issues that are associated with continually dropping lake levels.
In Part 3 , we look at how the main water source for most of this region, the Colorado River, has been affected by drought, and how that may affect the water politics in the upcoming decades.
PHOENIX, Ariz. (AllPolitics, June 2) -- Barry Goldwater's body will be cremated after his funeral Wednesday, and a newspaper reports his ashes will be mixed with those of his first wife and spread in the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon.
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At 277 miles long and more than a mile deep, its intricate formations are matched only by the stunning striation of the rock, and by the knowledge that the entire thing was carved out by the Colorado River on a 5-million-year mission.
Could ocean water desalination end the fight over water rights to the Colorado River, eliminate the need for new canals and pipelines to bring water to southern California and even allow for the return of stretches of biologically damaged parts of the Sacramento River delta to healthy wetlands?
"We are seeing an exciting shift in communities after businesses left and downtowns are looking to revitalize, " said Jason Carey, founder of River Restoration, a Colorado-based engineering firm working on the Grand River effort.
They were found dead Saturday after being buried in snow on a high mountain pass in Colorado's White River National Forest, officials from the Clear Creek County Sheriff's Office said.
The Green River Basin in Wyoming, Utah and Colorado contains another 800 billion barrels.
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Beyond this obstinate spine of rock that the Colorado has not yet managed to grind down, the river enters Canyonlands National Park.
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