Pumping Missouri River Water to Denver Colorado?

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DENVER (KMOX) - The battle for more river water is about to get even more serious.

Along with the debate over whether to send more water down the Missouri River for navigation purposes, enter Colorado in the picture.
The Colorado River is low on water and, according to the New York Times, a plan by the Federal Bureau of Reclamation is about to be revealed that would take water from the Missouri River and send it into a 600 mile pipeline to the Colorado River.
It would provide the Colorado River Basin with 600,000 acre-feet of water each year. The plan reportedly calls for building a pipeline from the Missouri River to Denver along with a mammoth pumping station at Leavenworth, Kansas to send water to the mile-high city.



http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2012/12/11/plan-to-pipe-missouri-river-water-to-colorado/

[Zippyjuan]

I live in San Diego. Some of our water comes from the Colorado River and some is pumped hundreds of miles down from the Sierra Nevadas. They just approved the construction of a plant to convert sea water into drinking water (would only be able to provide a small percent of consumption but will help). When the alllocations of Colorado River water were divided up, it was an unusually wet time and since then the river has been seriously taxed. It is completely dry by the time it reaches Mexico.

Colorado (and many other western states) has been in drought conditions for several years now.