The Colorado River Basin has lost as much water as the size of Lake Mead over the past 21 years.
found that climate change caused the loss of over 40 trillion liters of water from the basin from 2000 to 2021.
A stock photo shows the Colorado River running through the Grand Canyon. A study shows that a Lake Mead-sized amount of water has gone from the river over the last 21 years. The study, published in the AGU journal Water Resources Research, reported that without climate exacerbating the effects, reservoir levels would likely not have dropped to such low capacities in 2021.are in a dire state due to the drought. And while the reservoir has filled slightly this year due to heavy rainfall, it still reached its lowest point ever in summer 2022, of 1040 feet below sea level. The reservoir has not seen levels this low since it was first constructed in the 1930s.
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