{"id":288,"date":"2012-12-05T02:05:43","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T02:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucefinley.com\/environment\/missouri-river-pipeline-mulled-to-ease-front-ranges-water-woes\/"},"modified":"2012-12-05T02:05:43","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T02:05:43","slug":"missouri-river-pipeline-mulled-to-ease-front-ranges-water-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/environment\/missouri-river-pipeline-mulled-to-ease-front-ranges-water-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri River pipeline mulled to ease Front Range&#8217;s water woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Importing water from the Missouri River to Colorado&#8217;s semi-arid Front Range has emerged as an option western states are considering to deal with increasing overuse of the Colorado River.<\/p>\n<p>That diversion is listed as a long-term possibility after review of more than 100 sometimes far-fetched ideas submitted to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Among them: &#8220;Towing an iceberg wrapped in some type of plastic to California and capturing the meltwater&#8221;; tapping the Mississippi River; and &#8220;filling large nylon water bags&#8221; in Alaska for distribution down south.<\/p>\n<p>Bureau of Reclamation officials on Tuesday said the &#8220;Missouri River Reuse Project&#8221; will be evaluated for feasibility following the release in coming weeks of a federal government study on water supply for the West.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/ci_22126112\/missouri-river-pipeline-mulled-ease-front-ranges-water\" title=\"Read More\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Importing water from the Missouri River to Colorado&#8217;s semi-arid Front Range has emerged as an option western states are considering to deal with increasing overuse of the Colorado River. That diversion is listed as a long-term possibility after review of more than 100 sometimes far-fetched ideas submitted to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Among them: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}