Colorado Experience: Western Water-and Power 

A major example of a version of water diversion is the engineering of the Chicago River from it's drainage into Lake Michigan and reverse it to drain into the Mississippi River to serve Chicago for sewage and Commercial navigation.

I don't mind Denver using our water.But not to give it to California.Which has sebveral desalination plants that they haven't used.This water,could help people in the other states.If Dubai can do it,we can too.

I never knew how much water eastern Colorado took from the western slopes and for how long it's been doing it.

Amazing program. It makes you wonder about the alterations to hydrology that were made and the effects they had. Surface and groundwater issues we are now seeing. The ecological plant and animal communities that have shifted as a result, such as the rich fens and riparian habitats. The effect that mining might have played, and also communities on either side of the slope. The future of Colorado!

Preserve it and Reserve it

If it's wetter than normal when we find it, it's not a drought when it returns to normal.

I went to Western and Mesa had both Schultz and Vandenbusch as professors. They both seen i was a dumb tired jock and made me drop their history classes. After that we had a mutual respect for one another. They wernt going to let me sit in a class and fail. Both these guys are walking encyclopedias. Top notch Drs.

At least Colorado is letting y'all leave a comment. Until the last drop.california doc.vidio about water won't.

Love it

Amazing program!! Wish I could have seen all of these projects/construction in person but this amazing footage makes me feel as if I am there. RMPBS has gained another subscriber.

I would love to see open lands for People wherever our water can be found

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Here we are now dealing with a water shortage in az and yet they keep building and people keep flocking here. So theyll want to leave because there wont be any water

Gorgeous place

Really cool history. Makes me happy to be a part of it at Shoshone!

Love this program! thanks mate

Really interesting, thank you for putting us together. All of these projects unfortunately create unnatural results: people and crops where they should not be.

Looooove this channel!🥰

I rode thru the Moffitt Tunnel twice and saw Estes or Winter Park . You can only see so much from the Train and I thought the ride up was my piece of the Front Range . I have Driven over and been thru Grand Junction more than a couple times . I never knew so much water was diverted thru the Front Range . I have seen dry Rivers in Arizona so have been exposed to some of this . Living in the East this is an eye opener , thank you for the Video . Plan 2014 has been Bypassed and the St Law Seaway will not open till April First this year . Lake Ontario is Too high for the 3rd year . They have to let some out . All of these plans and Compacts do not always Work the way it was thought they would .

Lakes in the west are going dry and were trying to figure out what to do! the answer is right here!!!!!!!

Powell.... oh Sir, I wish we had listened to you.

I didn't realize this was a live. Sorry I missed it.

Amazing. I knew some of this but not the extent of it!

My son lived near Denver and that side did need water. We took a day tour and saw the Moffet tunnel. We had to wait for a coal train so we missed basic snow board training.

I am very interested in the ditch projects and their history in Boulder County, so this is super interesting. Thanks for putting this all together.

We are about to rewrite water laws all over the West. We need to start prioritizing "food" water over landscape water, getting rid of coal water, and making existing agriculture more drought tolerant, and water efficient.

Zebulon Miracle? What a name....

By the time the Fraser River gets down to the Pacific coast where I live it’s swollen muddy brown but it would be so cool if it could be split and piped to the lower states (or intersect with the Colorado River!) instead of it being wasted to the sea!

We have snow and ice lingeringly all around us, let's keep walking our dogs on it!!

The lakes are drying up! Why don't we drop in a bit of Antarctica? :o

I feel sad when I see the Hoover Dam (2018) and the water level behind it. When looking down the spill ways and their tunnels through the sides of the canyon gives a scope to the scale of what the river could deliver. Never again will they be used.

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if you think of the East west dispute as a smaller version of what the US/canada water wars will be and the US *WILL* get all Canada's water

Use the TBS machine tunnel to Canada and bring excess water to the Colorado river.

Powell for President

Now Denver is digging pits along the South Platte so they can pump the "ground water" that seeps out of the river back upstream to the city.

More Duane Vandenbusche! Former Western students know....

From Michigan, the Great Lakes State. No! You can't have any, don't even look at us

This is what Powell and Mead are really dealing with.

I like how this “Dr Limerick” goes “people prone to rambling find their limit here” as she’s rambling 😂😂😂 All she does is ramble with that mouth that barely opens. “Pike declared it a wasteland prematurely” And it’s literally becoming a wasteland as we speak 😂😂😂 it sounds like the ramblers have met their limit 😂😂😂😂

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This is quite the one sided propaganda piece.