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Nation’s Largest Reservoirs Are Drying Up, Threatening Life in the Southwest (www.nytimes.com)
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Agriculture is the biggest user of the Colorado River, with alfalfa and other sources of livestock feed accounting for nearly half of the water consumed. Municipal water systems use about a quarter.

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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

The climate change that causes the lack of snowpack has everything to do with the corruption. Solving that wont solve climate change or the drought but it will drastically reduce further climate change and drought.

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