The Bureau of Reclamation expects the decline will continue until November, causing ripples upriver as agreements linking Mead and Lake Powell water levels come into play sooner than expected. The water level at Lake Mead near Las Vegas hit its lowest level since filling in the 1930s. In a broader sense, the daily blast of heat past the century mark will put another exclamation point on water issues along the Colorado River.
#GRAND JUNCTION DAILY SENTINEL PLUS#
It’ll be hard to avoid the overwhelming desire for a tall glass of cool, refreshing water in the coming week while we’re flirting with record 100-degree plus temperatures here in the Grand Valley. Here’s a guest column from Jim Spehar that’s running in The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: (Map and statistics from Brauman and others, 2016)
Water scarcity presently affects half of the world’s population and three-fourths of all irrigated agriculture. Yellow areas on the map represent places that experience water shortages during droughts, orange areas experience scarcity during certain months of the year, and red areas are chronically short of water. This map highlights the places around the globe that are experiencing water shortages.
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