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Climate change is shrinking the Colorado River

Lake Powell, photographed April 12, 2017. The white ‘bathtub ring’ at the cliff base indicates how much higher the lake reached at its peak, nearly 100 feet above the current level. Patti Weeks

NOTE: This article is reposted from TheConversation.Com originally posted on June 13, 2017 10.22pm EDT. Read the original article with links to additional information at: https://theconversation.com/climate-change-is-shrinking-the-colorado-river-76280 The nation’s two largest reservoirs, Lake Mead on the Arizona/Nevada border and Lake Powell on the Arizona/Utah border, were brim full in the year 2000. Four short years later, they… Continue reading Climate change is shrinking the Colorado River

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