Make it rain
Today, Explained
Vox
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🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Stretching from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of California, the Colorado River gives |
| 0:06.1 | fresh water to people across seven states. |
| 0:09.3 | But drought, climate change, and a growing population has shrunk the river's water flow |
| 0:14.7 | to its lowest levels ever. |
| 0:16.8 | Now... |
| 0:17.8 | The situation on the Colorado River is critical. |
| 0:20.8 | Despite a rainy and snowy winter out west, Lake Powell and Lake Mead, the reservoirs |
| 0:26.2 | that provide water for 40 million Americans are at record low levels due to the ongoing |
| 0:31.4 | mega drought. |
| 0:32.5 | The Colorado River is in one of the worst dry spells that humans have ever witnessed, |
| 0:38.2 | and that's driven water levels in the river and in the major reservoirs to the lowest |
| 0:42.4 | levels we've seen on record. |
| 0:44.9 | There are a lot of ideas how to fix it. |
| 0:47.6 | One of them is especially wild. |
| 0:50.0 | Coming up on today's explain, how to make it rain. |
| 0:57.0 | Today... |
| 1:00.0 | Today... |
| 1:02.0 | Today it rained. |
| 1:05.8 | Mayor Irfan, Science Reporter at Vox.com. |
| 1:08.6 | Why are things so bad on the Colorado River? |
| 1:11.3 | It's a combination of both natural and human effects. |
| 1:14.4 | This is a region that's dry and it goes through periods of extremely dry spells. |
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