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How the Yampa River, and its Dependents, Survived the Drought of 2012
Posted by Sandra Postel of National Geographic's Freshwater Initiative in Water Currents on October 18, 2012
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As this year’s drought deepened and spread across the United States, many cities and farms took steps to cope. Bans on landscape irrigation conserved municipal supplies. Farmers pumped more groundwater for their crops to make up for the lack of rain. But what’s a river to do? Most rivers are last in line for help…
