Brett Walton quotes an email to Circle of Blue from Jonathan Overpeck: ‘It’s a wakeup call kind of paper that I’d take seriously.’ A climate scientist at the University of Arizona, Overpeck is a lead author for the United Nations’ climate assessments. The recent paper he references was published in the Journal of Climate and highlights how rising temperature really will be hard on our water supply in a large swath of the United States, especially the Southwest from California to Texas.

The southwest is currently in the middle of a dry cycle that has lasted four years in California, five years in Texas, and more than 14 years in the Colorado River Basin. >Read More about the risk of ‘Megadroughts’ via Circle of Blue http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2015/world/study-decades-long-megadroughts-in-u-s-southwest-and-central-plains-more-likely-climate-change/