Sometime next month, for the first time, the government is likely to declare a water shortage at Lake Mead. Arizona and its farmers will get hit first, but the water crisis will touch everyone.
Inside the Southwest’s two-decade mega-drought. bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-…
Inside the Southwest’s two-decade mega-drought. bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-…
“If the drought persists or accelerates, then this becomes a race against time. The Colorado River Compact, drafted in the wake of two decades of unusually abundant rains, allocated more water than the river could provide. Now Mother Nature is forcing the Southwest to adjust.”
All of the graphics in this piece arrived via the great @hecharts.
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