Warming and Drought
Re “As Reservoirs Recede, Fears of a Water Shortage Rise,” Oct. 3: Your story on falling reservoir levels in the West failed to mention the 800-pound gorilla: global warming. The steadily hotter and drier weather of the West fits perfectly with global warming models. Everything suggests that things will only get worse. It is possible that much of the West will have Sahara conditions by 2100. Yet governments continue to be in denial about the very existence of a phenomenon that appears already to be costing us millions of dollars.
Gene Anderson
San Bernardino
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