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Water: The Colorado River
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Water: The Colorado River

  • Courtesy, UA College of Science
  • Jan 27, 2023
  • Jan 27, 2023 Updated May 22, 2023
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This is a clip from the College of Science lecture series in 2021, which focused on water. Here, Connie Woodhouse, a geography professor at the UA, discusses how the Colorado River is subject to natural climate variability and, increasingly, the impacts of a warming climate. Watch the full video of this lecture and others on the UA College of Science's YouTube channel, http://tucne.ws/1mh9.

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