Lake Mead
There is a 50 percent chance Lake Mead, a key source of water for millions of people in the southwestern United States, will be dry by 2021 if climate changes as expected and future water usage is not curtailed, according to a pair of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.
Without Lake Mead and neighboring Lake Powell, the Colorado River system has no buffer to sustain the population of the Southwest through an unusually dry year, or worse, a sustained drought. In such an event, water deliveries would become highly unstable and variable, said research marine physicist Tim Barnett and climate scientist David Pierce.
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Lake Oroville
The District is currently under a Level 1 Drought Watch condition, but water wholesaler officials at Metropolitan Water District of Southern California say a Level 2 Drought Alert condition could be declared in April 2009 due to below-average rainfall, restrictions on water pumping from the Sacramento Bay Delta, and shrinking water supplies.
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Lake Mead
There is a 50 percent chance Lake Mead, a key source of water for millions of people in the southwestern United States, will be dry by 2021 if climate changes as expected and future water usage is not curtailed, according to a pair of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.
Without Lake Mead and neighboring Lake Powell, the Colorado River system has no buffer to sustain the population of the Southwest through an unusually dry year, or worse, a sustained drought. In such an event, water deliveries would become highly unstable and variable, said research marine physicist Tim Barnett and climate scientist David Pierce.
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Lake Oroville
The District is currently under a Level 1 Drought Watch condition, but water wholesaler officials at Metropolitan Water District of Southern California say a Level 2 Drought Alert condition could be declared in April 2009 due to below-average rainfall, restrictions on water pumping from the Sacramento Bay Delta, and shrinking water supplies.
Read the full article