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Princeton's WordNet

1. Colorado, Colorado Rivernoun

   a river in Texas; flows southeast into the Gulf of Mexico

2. Colorado, Colorado Rivernoun

   an important river in the southwestern United States; rises in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and flows southwest through Utah into Arizona (where it flows through the Grand Canyon) and then southward through the southern tip of Nevada, then forming the border between California and Arizona and finally into Mexico where it empties into the Gulf of California; the main source of water in the southwestern United States

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1. Supervisor Travis Lingenfelter:

   These companies are actually pretty savvy in that they come out West, purchase and pick up cheap rural agricultural land, they sit on it for a little while and then they’re trying to sell Colorado River water, i do n’t think that they should be allowed to profiteer off of Arizona’s finite resources … If they’re coming after a portion of our only water supply on the river for many of our communities, we have to fight it.

2. Justin Mankin:

   It's kind of like the central bank of an economy, drawing money from local banks to kind of keep the economy afloat, lake Powell is the central bank of Colorado River. Maybe Lake Powell's workable for a little while, but just like a household, the longer Lake Powell's in debt, the harder Lake Powell gets. And Lake Powell's really the same thing with these reservoirs.

3. Doug Hendrix:

   The Colorado River is the lifeblood for about 40 million people in the southwest including northern Mexico, under full reservoir operations, we can generate enough power annually for about 600,000 households. Now we’re down to be able to generate power for about 450,000 households.

4. Chelsea Peters:

   Several years of below-normal snowpack across the Intermountain West mountains that supply the Colorado River Basin will continue to increase the water supply stress, which was already in jeopardy due to population increase, we recently saw this impact reservoir storage and lake levels in Lake Mead and Lake Powell. Within the last year, both Lake Powell and Lake Mead have observed their lowest reservoir storage levels in 30 years.

5. John Fleck:

   Even without climate change, we would have a problem because we're taking more water out than Colorado River could provide, but climate change has made the problem much worse by substantially reducing the flow in Colorado River.

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