Zócalo Public SquareCan Cash and Cooperation Save the Colorado River? – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Can Cash and Cooperation Save the Colorado River? https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2015/01/20/cash-cooperation-colorado-river/ideas/up-for-discussion/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2015/01/20/cash-cooperation-colorado-river/ideas/up-for-discussion/#respond Tue, 20 Jan 2015 08:01:42 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=57795 In the Southwest, even a place like Las Vegas’ Caesars Palace relies on the Colorado River, which is responsible for $1.4 trillion in annual economic activity across the region. After 15 years of drought, the hotel-casino is now saving 30 million gallons of water a year by using a car wash-like laundry to clean its linens and towels. If river flow continues to decline, it will be an economic as well as an ecological disaster affecting everyone from the maids at Caesars to the endangered humpback chub. In advance of the Zócalo/ASU event “Can the Colorado River Survive?”, we asked people who study, manage, and document the river to tell us how we can make sure the answer to that question is “yes.”

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If river flow continues to decline, it will be an economic as well as an ecological disaster affecting everyone from the maids at Caesars to the endangered humpback chub.

In advance of the Zócalo/ASU event “Can the Colorado River Survive?”, we asked people who study, manage, and document the river to tell us how we can make sure the answer to that question is “yes.”

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