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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美国一州放空湖水还债

       据《每日电讯报》报道，科罗拉多州的一个大湖正在被清空，把水交给堪萨斯州和内布拉斯加州，因为该州欠它们40亿加仑的水。

       邦尼水库是科罗拉多州东部非常受欢迎的一个旅游景点，其水闸已打开，让水顺着里帕布利肯河自然流到新家，因为根据科罗拉多州1942年与邻州签订的一个共享里帕布利肯河水资源的协定，它超了限额。

       生物学家正在忙着移走邦尼水库的鱼，这些鱼每年吸引数千垂钓者。

       该案凸显了美国西部不断恶化的供水安全紧张形势，该地区近几年旱灾不断，引起灾害预警。

(China.org.cn October 11, 2011)