Lakes Mead and Powell could run dry by 2021

This latest work “not only shows that climate change is a real problem. It also shows it has direct implications for humans – and not just in the third world,” says Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute in Oakland, Calif. The institute focuses on links between sustainable development and global security issues. “Even without climate change, we’re taking too much water from the Colorado. So it’s no surprise that if we continue to take too much, the reservoirs will go dry.”

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