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Upper Colorado River Basin's Hydrology July 20, 2012 — For nine
decades, the Colorado River Basin Compact has provided the water
allocation blueprint for communities located in the Upper and
Lower basins. While that 1922 water distribution agreement
remains intact, other factors -- climate, land use and
population -- in the seven states that comprise the region have
undergone vast changes over the years. For Fred Ogden, that long
hydrological history is ripe for review. But rather than peruse
old maps, Ogden will use advanced technology. Ogden, the Cline
Distinguished Chair in the Department of Civil and Architectural
Engineering and Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources
at the University of Wyoming, is working to create a
computational model of the hydrology of the upper Colorado River
Basin - roughly 112,000 square miles that run from Wyoming and
Colorado down to the Gulf of California. The Green River, a
Colorado River tributary, is