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Those of us in Arizona and all over the intermountain west fear this.

Water levels in the Cerro Prieto reservoir, near Guadalupe in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León, have been declining for years. But a persistent and deepening drought over the past two years has brought the reservoir, built in the 1980s, to its lowest point yet. In July 2022, the reservoir dropped to 0.5 percent of its capacity of 393 million cubic meters (318,000 acre-feet).

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150123/a-reservoir-runs-dry?fs=e&s=cl
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