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A team of scientists declares in a new report,
. . . explaining the effects of climate change on the Colorado River,
. . . that there won’t be any “breakthroughs” to save us from water scarcity.

Every element of the hydrologic cycle, to some degree, is temperature dependent:
. . . . . . when it snows versus when it rains;
. . . . . . when it melts,
. . . . . . how much evaporates;
. . . . . . how much water the plants use;
. . . . . . the length of the growing seasons.
. . . It’s all temperature-dependent.

The Colorado river basin,
. . . is undergoing one of the worst droughts ever recorded,
. . . caused by shrinking water supply.

All the states that depend on the river:
. . . . . . Arizona,
. . . . . . California,
. . . . . . Colorado,
. . . . . . Nevada,
. . . . . . New Mexico,
. . . . . . Utah, and
. . . . . . Wyoming,
. . . have had to scramble to conserve, and add new water supplies as a result.
. . . And there’s no clear end in sight.

11-7-2016 Source:  Climate change is Water change.

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China’s largest freshwater lake,
. . . (that spans 1,737 square miles)
. . . has turned into a sprawling grassland.

Now, visitors can walk on dry ground,
. . . where water once measured between,
. . . 28 to 82 feet deep.

11-7-2016 Source:  China's Drought

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