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Western states buy time with a 7-year Colorado River drought plan, but face a hotter, drier future

  • Written by Brad Udall, Senior Research Scientist, Colorado Water Institute, Colorado State University
The white "bathtub ring" around Arizona's Lake Mead (shown on May 31, 2018), which indicates falling water levels, is about 140 feet high.AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin

As Midwest states struggled with record spring flooding this year, the Southwest was wrestling with the opposite problem: not enough water. On May 20, 2019, federal officials and leaders...

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