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New Mexico Political Report
Posted inEnvironment & Conservation

As climate changes, researchers develop a new metric for evaluating water available from snowpack

Throughout the western United States, communities rely on the storage of water in mountain snowpack to feed the rivers and reservoirs that provide drinking water and irrigation supplies. But climate change is changing that and the current methods of measuring how much water is stored in the mountain snow may provide an inadequate picture, according […]