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Scarce water, profligate use: A new report says the area around the shrinking Colorado River is the driest it has been in 1,200 years. For more than a decade, photographer and Nat Geo Explorer Pete McBride has been trying, as he puts it, “to make more people aware of how many straws are dipping into our collective drink.” The basin supplies drinking water to 40 million people in the U.S. Southwest. The region’s droughts could last until 2030, Nat Geo reports. (Pictured above, a golf course, with its heavy water use, in the desert south of Las Vegas.)
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