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Thanks in Parts of Climate Change, some parts of America are now drier than a two-day old Popeye's biscuits.

And that could have huge consequences for everyone, whether you live in those areas or not.

And you're about to find out why in another installment of, oops, we killed the Earth.

Water.

It's the one snack you can share with a house plant.

Water can come from a number of sources, like rainfall, melting snow, or ringing out mega-defox and machine gun Kelly.

But for years now, parts of the American Southwest haven't been getting enough water.

And lately, things have gotten even worse.

The American West.

The stretches of land, mountains, fields, the ground, baking, and cracking.

Nearly half the country in the grips of a mega drought.

The worst drought since at least medieval times.

This is one of the worst, if not the worst, sort of 22-year period of lean years we've seen.

A mega drought on steroids, fueled by warming and drying from human-caused climate change.

For the first time ever, the federal government has declared a watershed for the world.

It has declared a water shortage on the Colorado River.

And that's triggered mandatory water consumption cuts for states across the Southwest.

Utah's Great Salt Lake is drying up at historic rates, as more than 90% of the state is crippled by extreme drought.

Utah Governor Spencer Cox has declared a state of emergency and called on people in Utah to reduce their water use and pray for rain.

We need some divine intervention.

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