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New Water Cuts Announced as Colorado River Hits Dangerous Low
With water levels in the Colorado River near their lowest point ever, Arizona and Nevada on Tuesday faced new restrictions on the amount of water they can pump out of the river, the most important in the Southwest. And the threat of more cuts looms. This week, those two states along with five others failed…
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Colorado River Reservoirs Run Critically Low. States Must Submit Cuts.
States in the Colorado River basin are scrambling to propose steep cuts in the water they’ll use from the river next year, in response to a call by the federal government for immediate, drastic efforts to keep the river’s main storage reservoirs from reaching critically low levels. The request comes with the Southwest still in…
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Teen May Have Drowned in Thames River Amid London’s Heat Wave, Police Say
A 14-year-old boy was missing on Monday evening and believed to have drowned while swimming in the River Thames, according to London’s police service, as thousands flocked to stretches of water to escape Britain’s scorching heat wave. Late Monday afternoon, London’s Metropolitan Police was alerted to reports that a child had entered the river in…
