No snow. No water. Restrictions grow across West as drought fears rise

Source: msn.com



Story by Trevor Hughes • 3h

Water restrictions growing across Western US as drought fears rise


FRISCO, Colorado ‒ Stretching out in their beach chairs as the temperature climbed toward 70 degrees, Seth and Renee McLaughlin watched their three kids play in the sand on what was supposed to be family ski trip.

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"It’s obviously frustrating. You want to go skiing, and usually we ski until May, and instead we’re at the beach," said Seth McLaughlin, 44, a nonprofit consultant. ................

The McLaughlins' ruined vacation is a harbinger of what climatologists say will be a dangerously dry summer across the West. ..............


Much of the nation is in drought already, but the headwaters of the Colorado River is among the driest places, along with south Texas and all of Florida. Alarmed civic officials across the West have already begun ordering restrictions on watering lawns, cleaning cars and even whether restaurant patrons get served glasses of water.

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"It's really grim. It's horrific," said Udall, a senior climate scientist at Colorado State University’s Colorado Water Center. "The impacts are going to be everywhere, throughout the economy and personally. You will feel this personally as it happens."

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