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Climate change is shrinking the Colorado River

  • Written by Brad Udall, Senior Research Scientist, Colorado Water Institute, Colorado State University
imageLake 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

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...

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