The Southwestern US Reservoirs And Colorado River Drying Up Will Be Worse Than Dealing With Covid Without Cooperation Or A Miracle

Climate change is affecting water access for people around the world. Increasing global temperatures are one of the main contributors to the problem. The lack of precipitation, elevated temperatures, and heatwaves make water scarcity an even bigger problem by worsening the droughts.

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The bleached-looking rock toward the bottom is a sign of where the water once reached before the effects of historic drought, aptly called Megadrought, began to deplete the water from Lake Mead. The fresh water in the Lake Mead reservoir supplies water and electrical power that affects 40 million people. What if Lake Mead were to dry completely, forever?

According to the United States Bureau of Reclamation, which manages power and water in the Western United States, Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the United States. Lake Mead is a flooded canyon. The 229-square-mile lake snakes for 115 miles through the deserts of Arizona and Nevada. It seems like a never-ending body of water, a sea-like body of grand proportions that supplies water…