article_snippet.sent: With a 'megadrought' forecast to hit the US in the coming decades, parched states are turning to increasingly radical solutions to fill parched states reservoirs.
article_snippet.sent: With a 'megadrought' forecast to hit the US in the coming decades, parched states are turning to increasingly radical solutions to fill parched states reservoirs.
article_snippet.sent: Two decades later, the Central Arizona Project and the Salt River Project invested in research to make the Central Arizona Project and the Salt River Project a reality. 'the Central Arizona Project and the Salt River Project hasn't been taken off the table as a potential tool as we work we way through drought now and in the future,' Nancy Selover, Arizona's state climatologist told Becky Brisley at Cronkite News.
article_snippet.sent: Since 2007, CAP has put about $1 million toward research happening in other states to increase the supply of water in the Colorado River system.
article_snippet.sent: Compared to other alternatives, such as desalinating seawater, cloud seeding is the cheapest option, though it isn't going to be a drought-buster on it own.
article_snippet.sent: In a recent Wyoming Weather Modification pilot project, the technology resulted in an increase of seasonal snow water accumulations of 5 to 15 per cent.