Why The American West Is Running Out Of Water - Cheddar Explains

You’ve probably heard of droughts and wildfires in California, of groundwater drying up in Arizona, and of entire communities, like those on the Navajo Nation, that have been left without running water. The region is finally coming to terms with decades of infrastructure projects, coupled with using more water than nature can provide, as the threat of climate change moves in. Cheddar explains why the American West is running out of water.

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Further reading:

Yale Environment 360
https://e360.yale.edu/features/the-wests-great-river-hits-its-limits-will-the-colorado-run-dry

National Park Service
https://www.nps.gov/articles/2-water-in-the-west.htm

The Arizona Republic
https://www.azcentral.com/in-depth/news/local/arizona-environment/2019/12/05/wells-drying-up-around-willcox-where-effort-change-groundwater-rules-failed/2357906001/

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-health/2020/04/18/navajo-nation-water-shortage-contributing-covid-19-spread/2992288001/

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
https://www.epa.gov/green-infrastructure/green-infrastructure-semi-arid-west

PBS
https://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/episodes/seven/rainfollows.htm

American Association for the Advancement of Science
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6488/314
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/10/e1700784.full

Smithsonian Magazine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/visionary-john-wesley-powell-had-plan-developing-west-nobody-listened-180969182/#:~:text=Powell's%20map%2C%20assembled%20under%20his,basins%20through%20which%20water%20flows.&text=Powell%20understood%20that%20a%20mountain,and%20finally%20into%20the%20sea.

Kaiser Health News
https://khn.org/news/a-million-californians-dont-have-clean-drinking-water-where-do-they-live/
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