{"id":732873,"date":"2026-04-16T20:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/732873\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T20:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:30:25","slug":"water-conservation-works-but-climate-change-is-outpacing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/732873\/","title":{"rendered":"Water conservation works, but climate change is outpacing it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OPINION \u2014 When a drought turns into an urban water crisis, a city\u2019s first step is often to limit lawn watering and launch a campaign to encourage everyone to conserve. It might raise water-use rates or offer incentives for installing low-flow devices.<\/p>\n<p>While demand management techniques like these have had\u00a0a lot of success\u00a0in reducing water use, our new research suggests that they\u00a0may not be effective enough\u00a0in the face of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>We looked at three cities in the Colorado River Basin \u2014 Phoenix, Las Vegas and Denver \u2014 to understand what each could do to increase demand management amid water shortages and how far those methods could go as temperatures rise and the Colorado River\u2019s flow weakens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OPINION \u2014 When a drought turns into an urban water crisis, a city\u2019s first step is often to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":732874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,285,5644,8605,6772,2184,1589,31115,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,527,49371,56403],"class_list":["post-732873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-climate-change","tag-colorado-river","tag-denver","tag-drought","tag-las-vegas","tag-phoenix","tag-solutions","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-water","tag-water-conservation","tag-water-crisis"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116416284872682304","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}