This report investigates current conditions and trends in the American Southwest that are contributing to an increasingly dire situation in the Colorado River Basin. The effects of climate change, global warming, population growth, and increased demand for water have created a need for regional management of water resources and the scarcity of current water and future predictions.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Forward, Kyle Andrew
• Souviney, Nicholas J.
• Blair, Ryan Nicolas

Subject

• Sustainability
• Water
• Well-Being
• Environment
• Security

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042308-145132

Keyword

• North America--Colorado River Watershed
• Climatic changes

Advisor

• Crusberg, Theodore C.

Year

• 2008

Date created

• 2008-04-23

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright