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