Flow State
Jul 30, 2021
3 minutes
—NICHOLAS HUNT
The Colorado River Basin is drying out. The watershed has been gripped by a historic drought for two decades, and flows in its namesake river have dropped by 20 percent over the past century. Conditions are so dire that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is expected to issue the federal government’s first water shortage declaration this month, which will prompt cuts to supplies across the Southwest.
But folks whose lives are tied to
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