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New Water-Smart Communities Prepare For a Water Scarce Future

by | 6.17.2011 at 2:01pm | 2 Comments
Alamo Creek. Photo credit: NUVIS Landscape Architecture and Planning

A recent study by the Stockholm Environment Institute warns that the American Southwest is exhausting its water resources, and if water use isn’t reduced, “The cumulative water shortfall for the Southwest for the next century, without adaptation, will be 1,815 million acre feet” due to population and economic growth. Climate change will, of course, make [...]