Photos: The water level of Lake Mead and Lake Powell is in the last ten years has fallen significantly
31.08.2010, Vienna
In the business magazine "trend", the world's problems around the water theme. Forefront in the water footprint of 2483 cubic meters per person per year, of course, is the USA. The consequences are not only visited by us at the New tufa rock emerged in Mono Lake, you can but obviously the Colorado River, the lifeline of the West, have also affected dramatically.
It rises in the water-rich Rocky Mountains near Denver, and has a catchment area which is about twice as large as Germany. After more than 2300 kilometers of river flows in Mexico but not a mighty river into the ocean, but a dirty trickle in the summer of silts and more often before the actual opening.
The reason is the huge artificial lakes and massive irrigation of entire regions. But the reservoirs - admired by us - are threatened. Lake Powell and Lake Mead have since 2000 more than lost half its volume, the water level fell by an average of 45 meters. Should this trend continue, the power and water supply of cities like Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix and San Diego is in acute danger. Visit America, as long as it still is!
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