Contact: Rob Monroe
scrippsnews@ucsd.edu
858-534-3624
University of California - San Diego
Caption: Scheduled deliveries of water from Lake Mead, created by Hoover Dam, could be missed 60 to 90 percent of the time by midcentury if human-caused climate change continues to make the region drier.
Credit: US Bureau of Reclamation
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