Topic

Southwest megadrought

The decades-long period of severe dryness across Arizona, New Mexico, California, Utah, Colorado and northern Mexico that began in 2000, measured against tree-ring and soil-moisture records reaching back more than a millennium.

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Kearny lost 85 percent of its Gila River allotment after a 1 percent snowpack

Kearny, Arizona, draws from the Gila River, and its own river commissioner made this cut. The federal Colorado River reductions that dominate Southwest water policy do not govern what the town of 2,000 receives.

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Reality

Evidence68
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+14
Incentives24
Confidence64