The decades-old practice of cloud seeding is one way, experts say, to bring water to the drying West.
All across Colorado, teams of cloud seeders keep watch over the winter months, looking for the right conditions to make water.But the temperature, moisture levels and wind conditions have to be just right before those seeders, up to 25 of them at any given time, can get to work, Andrew Rickert, manager of Colorado’s Weather Modification Program, said.
Cloud seeders look to agitate those super-chilled water particles, causing them to freeze inside the cloud. From there they form snowflakes and fall to the ground, Rickert said. Seeders can agitate those particles by plane or from machines on the ground, both processes typically use a silver iodide compound.
For one of those programs, Jim Baller, president of the Jackson County Water Conservancy District said his organization partnered with Wyoming’s Water Development Commission for an aerial seeding operation. Water from the extra snowfall eventually melts, flowing down Colorado’s rivers and streams and eventually out of state, Rickert noted, so downstream states like Arizona, California, Nevada and New Mexico all chip in to the state’s $1.5 million budget.
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