Human-driven climate change has sapped the equivalent of a full Lake Mead from the Colorado River Basin, according to new research in AGU's journal Water Resources Research. Credit: Silvia Fang/Unsplash From 2000 to 2021, climate change caused the loss of more than 40 trillion liters (10 trillion gallons) of water in the Colorado River Basin - about equal to the entire storage capacity of Lake Mead - according to a new study that modeled humans' impact on hydrology in the region. Without climate change, the drought in the basin most likely would not have reduced reservoir levels in 2021 to the point requiring supply cuts under the first-ever federally declared water shortage , according to the study, which was published in the AGU journal Water Resources Research, which publishes original research on the movement and management of Earth's water.

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