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People driving their cars, cranking on their air conditioners and switching on lights and dishwashers are responsible for most of the climate changes that are gradually drying up water supplies in arid and growing western states, a new study finds.
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A Fiji islander frets about rising sea levels, while villagers cope with the destruction of mangrove swamps in India, and a Nepalese Sherpa fears his mountain valley will be flooded by melting glacier runoff high in the
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Human-induced climate change and an unslakable thirst for water may drain Lake Mead, the West's largest reservoir, by 2021, say researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
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Thirty-seven summers ago, in the swelter of An Hua Basin, Marine Lt. James H. Webb saw more bloodshed and death than most people see in a lifetime.
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. _ At the Golden Gate, the sea is rising.  In the Sierra Nevada, the snowpack is shrinking.  These developments, attributable to a warming climate, threaten one of California's most indispensable resources: water.
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By Bob Shaw, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Mar. 7--3M Co. has a message for Washington and Dakota counties: Stop worrying about your water.
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By Patrick O'Driscoll  DENVER -- The fast-growing states of the arid Southwest must plan for more severe droughts because of a regional warming trend that shows no signs of dissipating, says a new assessment of the Colorado River's water supply.
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By Dahleen Glanton, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Jun. 19--ATLANTA -- North and South Carolina are fighting over a river.  In Tennessee, springs are drying up, jeopardizing production of Jack Daniel's  whiskey. The mayor of Los Angeles is asking residents to take shorter showers.
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The Census Bureau says the population of those 65 and older will increase more rapidly in the West than in any other area of the country. While retirees settle in, states are figuring out how to keep up with an aging population. Will there be enough doctors and nurses? Hospitals and nursing homes? Will housing be affordable?
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By Sally Connell, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Jun. 17--Even as the project to ship water from Nacimiento Lake to homes and businesses in the North County and San Luis Obispo is nearing construction, some property owners are resisting plans to lay the pipeline across their land.
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With population swelling across the West, supporters of a proposed coal-fired power plant on the Navajo Nation reservation say the thirst for electricity is becoming too much for existing plants.
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Industrial boats from Europe and elsewhere have caused major fish populations to collapse in northwest Africaâs ocean floor, crippling coastal economies, and creating a surge of illegal migrants hoping to reach Europe.
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A new paper from climate scientists finds that dropping water supplies in the West are primarily due to manmade global warming through the increase of atmospheric greenhouse gases.
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The west is stripping the developing world of its talent. The pressures of ageing populations and the need to be at the frontier of technological change has meant skilled labour is in short supply, so raiding
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By Mike Taugher, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 3--For a pip-squeak of a fish, Delta smelt are becoming a whale of a threat to California's water supply.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Sep. 24--Reservoir construction, pipelines and water imports in the Arkansas Valley have changed flows in ways not yet fully understood.
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Climate change and a growing demand for water could drain two of the nation's largest manmade reservoirs within 13 years, depriving several Southwestern states of key water sources, scientists warn.