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Western states buy time with a 7-year Colorado River drought plan, but face a hotter, drier future

  • Written by Brad Udall, Senior Research Scientist, Colorado Water Institute, Colorado State University
Western states buy time with a 7-year Colorado River drought plan, but face a hotter, drier futureThe white "bathtub ring" around Arizona's Lake Mead (shown on May 31, 2018), which indicates falling water levels, is about 140 feet high.AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin

As Midwest states struggled with record spring flooding this year, the Southwest was wrestling with the opposite problem: not enough water. On May 20, 2019, federal officials and leaders...

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