Water Officials Meet to Address Colorado River Drought

Take Two, KPCC

There’s no shortage of bad news about the water supply here in the Southwest. The region has seen one of the driest seasons in recent history.

That drought is putting a big strain on the Colorado River, which supplies water to about 40 million people in seven different states. Federal officials have called a meeting today in San Diego to try to address the issue.

Jay Famiglietti, Director of the UC Center for Hydrologic Modelling at UC Irvine, joins the show to explain.

Click here to listen: http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2013/05/28/31984/water-officials-m…

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