In the draft analysis, the US Interior Department’s Bureau of Reclamation offers two different scenarios for how to slash water usage should the levels in Lakes Mead and Powell continue to plummet, with the immediate goal of keeping enough Colorado River flowing through the Glen Canyon and Hoover dams to supply hydroelectric power to hundreds of thousands of customers.
But the implications of the analysis go far beyond hydropower.
The Colorado River provides water and electricity to more than 40 million people in seven states: Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and California. Decades of overuse, combined with years of drought worsened by the climate crisis, have spurred a sharp drop in water levels in recent years at Lakes Mead and Powell, the nation’s largest reservoirs that power Hoover and Glen Canyon and provide water for drinking and agriculture to millions.
https://us.cnn.com/2023/04/11/us/colorado-river-water-cuts-federal-analysis-climate/index.html?utm_source=operamini&utm_medium=feednews&utm_campaign=operamini_feednews
Another article :
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/biden-colorado-river-drought-water-b2318083.html?amp
Nearby the opposite issue.
https://www.mrt.com/news/article/the-great-salt-lake-seemed-like-it-was-dying-but-17887260.php
At its lowest in history. How many other sources are also depleting.
Isn't the Mississippi? Meanwhile the great lakes are in coastal retreat.
How many sources are feeding the West Coast?
I'm will airing for California to drop-off into the ocean. But, I'd miss almonds and cashews.