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Colorado River
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The Colorado river is the lifeblood of the US Southwest, but today it is drastically [blank] due to overuse, megadrought and climate change. That is partly down to the [blank] that people are taking too much water out of the river basin and partly down to a megadrought, [blank] by climate change, which means the region the Colorado flows through is the driest it has been in 1200 years.
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The Colorado river is the lifeblood of the US Southwest, but today it is drastically depleted due to overuse, megadrought and climate change. That is partly down to the fact that people are taking too much water out of the river basin and partly down to a megadrought, exacerbated by climate change, which means the region the Colorado flows through is the driest it has been in 1200 years.
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