The hardest working river: Drought and critical water problems in the colorado river basin

Drought and Water Crises: Science, Technology, and Management Issues

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 249-285

  Pulwarty, Roger S ^a   Jacobs, Katherine L ^b   Dole, Randall M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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