像西部的许多地区一样，科罗拉多州经历了极度干旱 2001/2002年冬季的情况，导致许多国家出现供水危机 市政和农业区。由于缺乏充足的春季融雪，大多数水库 为科罗拉多州前线地区（包括丹佛地铁地区）的用水者提供服务 进入2002年夏季，气温异常低且危险。此外，炎热的天气 干燥的条件，以及相关的土壤湿度较低，有可能进一步加剧可用的压力 在即将到来的夏季月份供应。 政府跟踪了8个城市供水商对2002年干旱的反应 科罗拉多大学的研究人员参加了西部水资源评估， 美国国家海洋和大气管理局（NOAA）发起的一项倡议，重点关注气候变异性和变化对气候变化的影响 西部内陆各州的水资源。 本文总结的研究检验了应急需求管理工具的有效性， 对室外用水的限制，室外用水占总用水量的一半以上 在科罗拉多州的大部分市镇。包括桌子。

Like many regions of the West, the state of Colorado experienced extremely dry conditions through the winter of 2001/2002, leading to a water supply crisis in many municipal and agricultural regions. Lacking abundant spring snowmelt, most reservoirs serving water users along Colorado's Front Range (including the Denver-metro region) were unusually and dangerously low entering summer 2002. Additionally, the hot and dry conditions, and the associated low soil moisture, promised to further stress available supplies during the upcoming summer months. The response of eight municipal water providers to drought in 2002 was tracked by researchers at the University of Colorado affiliated with the Western Water Assessment, a NOAA-sponsored initiative focused on the impact of climate variability and change on water resources in the states of the interior West. The study summarized in this paper examined the effectiveness of an emergency demand management tool, restrictions on outdoor water use, which accounts for over half of all water consumption in most Colorado municipalities. Includes tables.