“Water lifeline of Western U.S.” is in dire straits
“We don’t know exactly how much groundwater we have left, so we don’t know when we’re going to run out,” said Stephanie Castle, a water resources specialist at the University of California, Irvine, and the study’s lead author. “This is a lot of water to lose. We thought that the picture could be pretty bad, but this was shocking.”
Stone Brewing Co. is among those breweries that get all their water from the Colorado River. Stone is diversifying its operations from the Western U.S. with new locations East of the Mississippi River and in Germany.
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