{"id":37406,"date":"2018-09-05T08:53:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T13:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37406"},"modified":"2018-09-05T08:53:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T13:53:55","slug":"over-half-the-u-s-has-now-been-hit-by-drought-as-lake-powell-and-lake-mead-drop-to-dangerous-low-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37406","title":{"rendered":"Over Half The U.S. Has Now Been Hit By Drought As Lake Powell And Lake Mead Drop To \u201cDangerous\u201d Low Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Over Half The U.S. Has Now Been Hit By Drought As Lake Powell And Lake Mead Drop To \u201cDangerous\u201d Low Levels<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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\"\"<\/a>The worst drought in years in the western half of the United States has sparked hundreds of wildfires, has crippled thousands of farms, and has produced what could ultimately be the worst water crisis in modern American history.\u00a0 As you will see below, Lake Powell and Lake Mead have both dropped to dangerously low levels, and officials are warning that we may soon be looking at a substantial shortfall which would require rationing.\u00a0 Unfortunately, many in the eastern half of the country don\u2019t even realize that this is happening.\u00a0 The mighty Colorado River once seemed to be virtually invulnerable, but now it doesn\u2019t even run all the way to the ocean any longer.\u00a0 Demand for water is continually increasing as major cities in the Southwest continue to grow, and this is happening at a time when that entire region just keeps getting drier and drier.\u00a0 To say that we are facing a \u201cwater crisis\u201d would be a major understatement.<\/ins><\/p>\n

I have written quite a bit<\/a> about the drought in the Southwest in recent months, and it just keeps getting worse.\u00a0 According to Forbes<\/a>, more than half the nation is now experiencing some level of drought\u2026<\/p>\n

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Drought conditions across the United States have worsened throughout the summer, culminating in more than half the country experiencing abnormally dry or drought conditions by the end of August.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The latest update of the United States Drought Monitor <\/a>shows that more than half of the country\u2014nearly 56 percent<\/strong>\u2014is abnormally dry or mired in a full-on drought. More than a third of the country is experiencing drought conditions, and almost eight percent is in an extreme or exceptional drought.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Over Half The U.S. Has Now Been Hit By Drought As Lake Powell And Lake Mead Drop To \u201cDangerous\u201d Low Levels The worst drought in years in the western half of the United States has sparked hundreds of wildfires, has crippled thousands of farms, and has produced what could ultimately be the worst water crisis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6144,101,5503,220,20971,4152,5159,4901,12538,6146,20973,12155,827,14654,866,867,18853],"class_list":["post-37406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-arizona","tag-california","tag-colorado","tag-drought","tag-dust-bowl-conditions","tag-lake-mead","tag-lake-powell","tag-michael-snyder","tag-nevada","tag-new-mexico","tag-southwest-drought","tag-the-american-dream","tag-united-states","tag-utah","tag-water","tag-water-crisis","tag-wyoming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37407,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37406\/revisions\/37407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}