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126 recommended articles and videos in the "US Heat and Drought" category.
1.  Featured: Early-season heat dome bringing record warmth, fire danger to Lower 48  

2023-04-12

View In: US Heat and Drought
Temperatures are running 20 degrees or more above average over an expansive swath of the Lower 48. Via: @Snoro@mastodon.social

2.  ‘Not much time left’: Salt Lake City’s mayor on the Great Lake drying up  

2023-02-18

Climate crisis | The Guardian
View In: Other Western Droughts
Former environmental activist Erin Mendenhall leads a fast-growing city threatened by toxic dust from the lake’s shrinking water levelsErin Mendenhall was once an environmental activist, campaigning for clean air. Now, in a fitting but grim twist, she is the mayor of a fast-growing US city that face...

3.  Lake Powell Drops to a New Record Low as Feds Scramble to Prop it Up  

2023-02-17

Inside Climate News
View In: Lake Mead and the Colorado River Basin
Water levels in Lake Powell dropped to a new record low on Tuesday. The nation’s second-largest reservoir is under pressure from climate change and steady demand, and is now the lowest it’s been since it was first filled in the 1960s.  Water levels fell to 3,522.16 feet above sea level, just below th...

4.  Arizona Considers $5.5 Billion Water Desalination Plant, 200-Mile Pipeline From Mexico To Combat Drought  

2022-12-27

Zero Hedge News
View In: Lake Mead and the Colorado River Basin
Arizona Considers $5.5 Billion Water Desalination Plant, 200-Mile Pipeline From Mexico To Combat Drought Arizona's Water Infrastructure Finance Authority has been tasked with reviewing a proposal for a multibillion-dollar project to construct a water desalination plant in Mexico that would pump wate...

5.  ‘It Is Going to Take Real Cuts to Everyone’: Leaders Meet to Decide the Future of the Colorado River  

2022-12-24

Inside Climate News
View In: Lake Mead and the Colorado River Basin
The Colorado River is shrinking at the hands of climate change, and the people who decide its future are caught in a standoff over how to share its water. Putting them all in the same room, then, is bound to breed some tension. The most powerful policymakers in the arid Southwest spent three days i...

6.  Drought emergency declared for all of Southern California by nation's largest water supplier  

2022-12-16

View In: California Heat and Drought
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California provides water to 26 agencies that supply major population centers such as Los Angeles and San Diego counties.

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