The Weather Thread

A day of reckoning has come..

"A climate-induced reckoning is playing out on the Colorado River.

Water levels in crucial river reservoirs have fallen so drastically this year that even those measures, which many hoped would shore up water resources enough to squeak through until the drought broke, fell far short. On June 14, the Department of the Interior made a stark ask: Within 60 days, the river-dependent states needed to come up with a plan to make the major trims. That deadline has almost arrived; an announcement is expected Tuesday.

Such deep cuts have never been made across the entire river. The magnitude, and the speed with which they need to be achieved, is completely unprecedented, says Felicia Marcus, a western water expert at Stanford University.

“It’s not a surprise, and it’s not yet the apocalypse, but we have to be clear-eyed that we’ve been gambling for at least the last 10 years. And so far, that bet’s not paying off,” she says."
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