no one is the west is unaffected by the water crisis

Where the River Runs Dry The Colorado and America’s water crisis.  BY DAVID OWEN

Lake Mead, which forms the border between Nevada and Arizona, thirty miles from Las Vegas. The lake is fed by the Colorado and was last full in 1998. Since then, its volume has fallen by some sixty per cent, and the water level has dropped more than a hundred feet.CREDITPHOTOGRAPH BY BRIAN L. FRANK