Monday Top of the Scroll: Lake Mead, crucial water source in West, tips toward crisis
[A]fter years of an unrelenting drought that has quickly accelerated amid record temperatures and lower snowpack melt, [Lake Mead] is set to mark another, more dire turning point. Next month, the federal government expects to declare its first-ever shortage on the lake, triggering cuts to water delivered to Arizona, Nevada and Mexico on Jan. 1. If the lake, currently at 1,068 feet, drops 28 more feet by next year, the spigot of water to California will start to tighten in 2023.
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