*The drainage area of the Colorado River is about 653,000 km² and its average annual discharge is about 15 million acre-feet (1.85 × 1010 m³) (Manning, 1992). The average precipitation rate in the basin is about 12 inches/year (30.5 cm/yr). Calculate the river discharge divided by the drainage basin area in inches/year (cm/yr). What fraction of the annual precipitation rate is this? What fates, other than ending up in the Colorado River, can precipitated water have in this basin?

*The drainage area of the Colorado River is about 653,000 km² and its average annual discharge is about 15 million acre-feet (1.85 × 1010 m³) (Manning, 1992). The average precipitation rate in the basin is about 12 inches/year (30.5 cm/yr). Calculate the river discharge divided by the drainage basin area in inches/year (cm/yr). What fraction of the annual precipitation rate is this? What fates, other than ending up in the Colorado River, can precipitated water have in this basin?

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