Reservoirs are drying up as consequences of the Western drought worsen

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/07/09/western-reservoirs-drought-california-nevada/

Source: By Diana Leonard, Laris Karklis, and Zach Levitt, The Washington Post 

Overview: Over the last 20 years, human-caused warming has intensified what would have been an ordinary dry period in the Southwest into a potential “megadrought” — in some ways the driest such period in 1,200 years....  See also Crushing heat wave in Pacific Northwest and Canada cooked shellfish alive by the millions.

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