Global Warming Shreds Colorado River Compact As Glen Canyon Dam Nears End Of Hydropower Generation, Possible Deadpool

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4. Most of this water is used for agriculture.

About 20% of the water goes to cities. Only a tiny fraction of that water is used to fill swimming pools and irrigate golf courses.

If you live in the U.S.A. the salad greens you buy in the winter were probably grown using Colorado River water.

Supermarket produce sections and restaurant menus across the nation would be bleak in the winter without this water -- cabbages, turnips, and potatoes. No salads, just soup. Some expensive hot-house and imported produce.

Eventually U.S. cities in the Southwest are going to switch to other, more expensive, water sources. They'll recycle more sewage and desalinate more water. Lower elevation cities won't run out of water, but the price of it will increase.

It's the farmers and consumers of fresh vegetables who will experience the worst of this.