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Record US drought sparks worries about fires, water supply and food prices

The contiguous United States is experiencing record drought levels for this time of year, according to weather data

The Independent UK

Major reports about how climate change affects the US are removed from websites

Legally mandated U.S. national climate assessments seem to have disappeared the federal websites built to display them

The Independent UK

As Colorado River shrinks, water evaporation becomes critical to California’s future supplies

LOS ANGELES — Much of the Colorado River’s water is diverted from reservoirs and transported in canals to the farmlands and cities of the desert Southwest. But some of the water also ends up going elsewhere — vanishing into thin air.

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Colorado River crisis is so severe, Lake Mead and Lake Powell are unlikely to refill in our lifetimes

LOS ANGELES — The snowpack in the Sierra Nevada is the deepest it’s been in decades, but those storms that were a boon for Northern California won’t make much of a dent in the long-term water shortage for the Colorado River Basin — an essential source of supplies for Southern…

Los Angeles Times

Growing fears of ‘dead pool’ on Colorado River as drought threatens Hoover Dam water

LAS VEGAS — The Colorado River’s largest reservoirs stand nearly three-quarters empty, and federal officials now say there is a real danger the reservoirs could drop so low that water would no longer flow past Hoover Dam in two years.

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