Bonny Reservoir in Colorado [Agencies]

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A large lake in Colorado is being emptied and given to Kansas and Nebraska because the state owes them four billion gallons of water, the Daily Telegraph reported.

Bonny Reservoir, a much-loved tourist spot in eastern Colorado, has its gates open, allowing the water to run naturally along the Republican River to its new home states after Colorado exceeded its allowance under a 1942 agreement with its neighbors on sharing the Republican River.

Biologists have been scrambling to move the fish that bring thousands of anglers to Bonny each year.

The case has highlighted growing tensions over the security of the water supply to the west of the US, which in recent years has suffered repeated droughts, prompting warnings of disaster.

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美國一州放空湖水還債

???????據(jù)《每日電訊報》報道，科羅拉多州的一個大湖正在被清空，把水交給堪薩斯州和內(nèi)布拉斯加州，因為該州欠它們40億加侖的水。

???????邦尼水庫是科羅拉多州東部非常受歡迎的一個旅游景點，其水閘已打開，讓水順著里帕布利肯河自然流到新家，因為根據(jù)科羅拉多州1942年與鄰州簽訂的一個共享里帕布利肯河水資源的協(xié)定，它超了限額。

???????生物學家正在忙著移走邦尼水庫的魚，這些魚每年吸引數(shù)千垂釣者。

???????該案凸顯了美國西部不斷惡化的供水安全緊張形勢，該地區(qū)近幾年旱災不斷，引起災害預警。

(China.org.cn October 11, 2011)