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August 16, 2022

Deadline looms for drought-stricken states to cut water use

By SAM METZ and FELICIA FONSECA
Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY — Banks along parts of the Colorado River where water once streamed are now just caked mud and rock as the Western U.S. hotter and drier.

More than two decades of drought have done little to deter the region from diverting more water than flows through it, depleting key reservoirs to levels that now jeopardize water delivery and hydropower production.


 
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