Rural Water - Quarter 2, 2008 - (Page 20) Drought? Can What You Do About It? BY DAVID MILLER, PHD Are You in a LAST YEAR, RESIDENTS of Las Vegas, the nation’s fastest-growing city, located in the middle of the Mojave desert, watched in alarm as their principal water source, Lake Mead, declined more than a hundred feet. Environmentalists cited this as more evidence of the dangers of global warming, noting drought periods as one more manifestation of global change and ruin. Lake Mead in Nevada recently declined more than a hundred feet. 20 • Second Quarter 2008 ©www.istockphoto.com/Lee Pettet
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