America's Water Shortage Crisis: Another Dust Bowl?
Lake Mead is part of the Colorado River system, which also includes Lake Powell, a second huge reservoir some 150 miles east, on the Utah-Arizona border. Fed by melting snow from the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado system is the main source of water for 30 million people in the Southwest. Millions more in California and Nevada rely on water from the Sierra Nevada. But a stretch of unusually dry years has driven levels in Mead and Powell to near-record lows. Full Story »
Posted by James Jackson
