{"id":246090,"date":"2024-02-17T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/in-100-million-colorado-river-deal-water-and-power-collide\/"},"modified":"2024-02-17T18:31:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T18:31:02","slug":"in-100-million-colorado-river-deal-water-and-power-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/in-100-million-colorado-river-deal-water-and-power-collide\/","title":{"rendered":"In $100 million Colorado River deal, water and power collide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n      <iframe style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; border: none; display: none\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" allowtransparency=\"\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\"><em>This story was originally published by\u00a0KUNC.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Colorado\u2019s Glenwood Canyon is as busy as it is majestic. At the base of its snowy, near-vertical walls, the narrow chasm hums with life. On one side, the Colorado River tumbles through whitewater rapids. On the other, cars and trucks whoosh by on a busy interstate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Pinched in the middle of it all is the Shoshone Generating Station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">\u201cIt is a nondescript brown building off of I-70 that most people don\u2019t notice when they\u2019re driving,\u201d said Amy Moyer, director of strategic partnerships at the Colorado River District. \u201cBut if you are in the water world, it holds the key for one of the most interesting and important water rights on the Colorado River.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Beneath a noisy highway overpass, Moyer looked at the hydropower plant through a chain-link fence. Her group, a taxpayer-funded agency founded&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/drought\/in-100-million-colorado-river-deal-water-and-power-collide\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on grist.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story was originally published by\u00a0KUNC. Colorado\u2019s Glenwood Canyon is as busy as it is majestic. At the base of its snowy, near-vertical walls, the narrow chasm hums with life. On one side, the Colorado River tumbles through whitewater rapids. On the other, cars and trucks whoosh by on a busy interstate. 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