Western lawmakers move to improve snow measurement in the Colorado River Basin

Western lawmakers move to improve snow measurement in the Colorado River Basin

“You can’t manage what you can’t measure,” Sen. Hickenlooper says, explaining why precision snow monitoring is increasingly important in the warming West. Now, Western lawmakers, including U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper of Colorado, want to know — exactly — how much snow and water is in the Colorado River Basin. The legislators Thursday introduced a bill focused on improving how the basin measures its water supply. It’s a tough subject: Rising temp…