If we don’t fix what is broken for the Colorado River, we will feel the bite of climate change and resultant economic, business, social and ecosystem impacts at a scale exceeding the American dust bowl of the 1930s.
These researchers found that state and federal policies encourage farmers to pull from the aquifer. Within 50 years, the entire aquifer is expected be 70 percent depleted.
How might COVID-19 impact four major environmental issues — overconsumption of natural resources, diminishing quantity and quality of fresh water, climate change and rapid population growth?
