New Colorado Water Documentary By Robert Redford

Colorado water issues are getting some powerful exposure in the press.

Reuters News Story – Redford puts star power behind Colorado River film

New map of the Colorado River watershed. Endorheic basin in Wyoming fixed, cities added, highlight added, terrain improved. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

(Reuters) – Actor and director Robert Redford, a longtime environmental activist, has teamed with his son to film a documentary about the Colorado River system, which conservationists believe is endangered by decades of development and global warming.

“The watershed issue is something that’s happening all over the world, where the need for water is greater than the amount of water to provide for it,” Robert Redford told Reuters.

“I think we’re picking the Colorado River as an example of what’s going on with watersheds all over the world and trying to focus on that and draw attention to it.”

The river flows from the Rocky Mountains 1,450 miles to the Gulf of California. But, as the Redfords’ film points out, the water rarely makes it that far because of the multiple demands of agriculture, industry and communities upstream.

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With the United Nations World Water Day 2012 and the new Redford documentary, water issues are getting a lot of publicity recently.

We’ve recently written a few articles about water issues in Colorado. We have more water issues than most states because so much of the western United States gets its water from the snow melt in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. So we have to be careful about what we allow to reach the storm drains and go down the river. This applies to us all, including the waste water from pressure washing.

Make sure any pressure washing you need is done by a company that stays on top of the water recovery regulations to keep your company from being in the next new story.