The Department of Interior is giving $50 million over the next five years to improve key water infrastructure and enhance drought-related data collection across the Upper Colorado River Basin.
WASHINGTON — The Department of Interior announced on Monday that it's giving $50 million over the next five years to improve key water infrastructure and enhance drought-related data collection across theThe move is part of the Biden-Harris administration's Investing in America agenda, a public and private infrastructure investment, which seeks to bring manufacturing back to America, create new jobs and rebuild roads and bridges throughout the U.S.
The forecasts for seasonal streamflow for most large Upper Colorado River Basin reservoirs are "much-above normal," with "near-to-above normal" flows for Green Mountain, Fontenelle and Flaming Gorge reservoirs. "As we look toward the next decade of Colorado River guidelines and strategies, we are simultaneously making smart investments now that will make our path forward stronger and more sustainable," he said.
The $8.7 million will help place 12 new eddy covariance stations throughout the Upper Basin to measure evapotranspiration, which is the sum of all processes by which water moves from land to the atmosphere via evaporation and transpiration. Evapotranspiration is a key process for measuring consumptive water use.
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