By Carol Broeder | Silver Belt
A watershed partnership is being created for Cobre Valley over the next two years to implement needed watershed projects.
The Cobre Valley Watershed Partnership (CVWP) will be funded by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation WaterSMART program.
In 2012, the Bureau predicted the current gap between water supply and demand (use) in the western United States would grow even larger in the coming decades.
When the demand for water exceeds — or threatens to exceed — supply, competition intensifies, and scarcity becomes a potential source of conflict.
Creating watershed partners is a way to not only “understand and allocate available resources
