Pressing issue

I read the other day that water shortages were going to drastically effect the Tempe, AZ area so when talking to my sister I asked her about that. She didn't seems worried and said she had not heard that much about it local news. Colorado outlines its plan for how the state will deal with water shortages worsened by climate change and population growth  

The Southwest is bone dry. Now, a key water source is at risk. 

 Drought-hit Colorado River water supplies near "moment of reckoning" 

"Immediate action" is needed to avoid a water supply crisis next year because of the Colorado River's depleted reservoirs, according to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's chief, Camille Calimlim Touton. Driving the news: The West's climate-change driven megadrought has plunged the nation's two largest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, to historic lows. "Between 2 million acre-feet and 4 million acre-feet of additional conservation is needed just to protect critical levels in 2023," Touton said Tuesday. 

The commissioner noted at the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on Capitol Hill that there "is so much to this that is unprecedented ... but unprecedented is now the reality and the normal in which Reclamation must manage our systems." "The challenges we are seeing today are unlike anything we have seen in our history," she said. 

Threat level: Per a report in April, the river that provides drinking water to 40 million people in seven states and 30 tribal nations is the most endangered waterway in the U.S. and "ground zero for the climate and water crisis" in the West. 

 Dry lakes and dry taps: Nuevo León faces its worst water crisis in decades  

"MONTERREY, Mexico (CN) — Patricia Palacios hasn’t had running water for nearly 50 days. Instead, she waits for the city water authority tanker that comes to her neighborhood two to three times a week to fill the array of tubs and buckets she now uses instead of plumbing. 

“It really is miserable,” said the 65-year-old retired biologist while chatting with a neighbor as they wait for their turn with the tanker. “I have them all labeled — this one for the bathroom, that one for [another room] — and as soon as they’re filled I take them straight to the part of the house where I’ll use them.” 

The Monterrey metropolitan area, which includes her city of General Escobedo, is suffering the worst water crisis it has seen in decades. And while most of its more than 5 million residents have running water at least a few hours a day due to restrictions imposed by the metropolitan water authority, the taps in her somewhat isolated neighborhood have been dry for nearly two months."