Engineering Inc. - September/October 2015 - (Page 18)
Low Water,
Engineers are developing solutions to ease
the impact of the Southwest's great drought
Water levels
at California's
Lake Oroville
are nearing
record lows.
By Samuel Greengard
T
he Southwestern United
States has historically
experienced periodic
droughts, but over the past
several years, the region
has faced one of the most
severe droughts ever. Lack of
precipitation-particularly the diminished
snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains-
has become so severe that many reservoirs
have dropped to 25 percent or less capacity,
prompting California state officials to warn
that water supplies could be completely
depleted if current trends continue.
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