Climate change has arrived with a vengeance in the American West.

 The region’s 22-year drought is the second-worst since the year 800, and scorching temperatures, municipalities and farmers scrambling for water, lost hydroelectric capacity, and conditions from Dante’s Inferno are a chronic condition.

Western states have supported booming cities and agriculture for more than a century with complex systems of dams, reservoirs and canals and by tapping groundwater.

MarketWatch 15 September 2021

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/western-water-crisis-demands-a-strong-federal-state-response-11631653332

40 Million People Rely on the Colorado River. It’s Drying Up Fast

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2021/08/40-million-people-rely-on-colorado.html