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Human-caused climate change has shrunk the amount of water in the Colorado River Basin by more than 10 trillion gallons since 2000, according to a recent study. CNN values your feedback 1.
From this northern edge of the Powder River Basin south into central Wyoming lies 41% of the United States’ coal supply. For the past century, it has fed the nation’s energy demand. Nearly all ...
Water supply managers for the Delaware River Basin this week declared an “emergency,” setting the stage for further action if dry conditions persist.
The rate of water losses in the seven-state Colorado River Basin has tripled in the past decade, mainly due to intensifying groundwater over-pumping in southeast and northwest Arizona, a new study ...
They estimated that annual groundwater losses in the Colorado River Basin have averaged more than 1.2 million acre-feet — about four times larger than the amount of water the Las Vegas area is ...
If Arizona’s Colorado River water allocation was cut to zero, “we could burn through the available groundwater in 50 years,” Famiglietti said. “We’re talking about decades. That’s scary.
The Colorado River Basin’s groundwater supplies are dwindling, thanks to a combination of both natural events and human pumping activities, a new study has found. The critical Western system has ...