{"id":7350,"date":"2012-12-26T02:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=7350"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:18:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:18:06","slug":"less-water-will-be-available-for-the-american-southwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/12\/26\/less-water-will-be-available-for-the-american-southwest\/","title":{"rendered":"Less Water Will Be Available for the American Southwest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rio-Grande.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7351\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/12\/26\/less-water-will-be-available-for-the-american-southwest\/rio-grande\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rio-Grande.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,401\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Rio Grande\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Rio Grande&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rio-Grande-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rio-Grande.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7351\" title=\"Rio Grande\" src=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rio-Grande.jpg\" alt=\"Rio Grande\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rio-Grande.jpg 600w, https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rio-Grande-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study in <a title=\"Nature Climate Change\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nclimate\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nclimate1787.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nature Climate Change<\/a> predicts that less water will be available in the American southwest because of decreased rainfall in some places and increased evaporation.<\/p>\n<p>The authors projected increased precipitation &#8211; in the form of both rain and snow &#8211; for northern California and the Colorado River watershed.\u00a0 The Colorado River supplies water for seven U.S. states and parts of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>However, the increased precipitation will not provide more water overall.\u00a0 The higher temperatures and longer summers that are also expected with <a title=\"Climate Change and the Colorado River Water Shortages\" href=\"http:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2009\/04\/22\/climate-change-and-the-colorado-river-water-shortages-expected-by-2050\/\" target=\"_blank\">climate change<\/a> will dry the soil, putting stress on agricultural users as well as households.<\/p>\n<p>Texas will experience a decrease in average rainfall and an increase in temperatures, the paper says.\u00a0 The <a title=\"Photos of the Texas Drought\" href=\"http:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/01\/04\/photos-of-the-texas-drought\/\">extended droughts<\/a> of the last few years may become the norm.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Rio Grande\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/cat.mhtml?lang=en&amp;search_source=search_form&amp;version=llv1&amp;anyorall=all&amp;safesearch=1&amp;searchterm=rio+grande&amp;search_group=#id=54941266&amp;src=f1da7d07d74180eef5ac5d24d3ac4be4-1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Rio Grande<\/a> photo via Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study in Nature Climate Change predicts that less water will be available in the American southwest because of decreased rainfall in some places and increased evaporation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":7351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[2854,2648,597,1713,2039,2150],"yst_prominent_words":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Rio-Grande.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7350"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}