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Millions of Americans brace for potential water and power cuts as two crucial US reservoirs plunge to historic lows

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Public Discourse · Bluesky · this story as of 8d ago
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8d ago For the second time this decade, a reservoir that provides hydroelectric power and regulates drinking water for millions of people is approaching a dangerously low level amid a significant drought.… -6.0
8d ago Trump's embrace of fossil-fueled policy drives a climate crisis causing extreme drought & heat conditions that make fires more likely, frequent, & extreme. Fires devastating Canada & Minnesota are … -7.5
8d ago Too hot to think. Too hot to sleep. Too hot to work safely. Millions of workers across Europe have zero legal protection from extreme heat. This won’t be the last heatwave. Sign the petition to dem… ×2 -5.0
8d ago We always need to conserve so industry can flourish. Calif dealt with drought conditions for decades while the farmers flooded their crops, wasting millions of gallons each year. Farms were finally… -3.0
9d ago 🔥 Millions of chickens died during France's record June heatwave. The loss hit even free-range farms, showing just how hard it is for food production to cope with rising temperatures. Read more ⤵… -6.0
9d ago Carney #Harperite Liberals want more of this. Millions face extreme heat, hazardous air from wildfires Extreme heat and smoke from wildfires in Canada created hazardous air quality across US aff… -5.0
9d ago For those watching Canada and wondering how a firestorm could possibly happen, I warn you that Western North Carolina is currently suffering through a historic drought, two years after a hurricane … -6.0
9d ago Look elsewhere? Act on our own? WTF does that mean? 🤣🤡 We have literally millions of square miles of forests at the mercy of lightening every time there's a thunderstorm... Seasonal wildfires alwa… -3.0
9d ago When another blizzard hits, millions will perish without the bread & milk -7.0
9d ago This is the latest weather update by Ryan Hall. A developing severe weather setup is targeting the Ohio Valley into the Mid-Atlantic this Saturday, bringing a significant threat for large hail and … -5.0
9d ago Heatwave, Technical Fault Trigger Widespread Power Outage Across Algeria https://www.europesays.com/africa/334483/ Rabat – A widespread power outage affected much of Algeria overnight from Tuesda… -6.0
9d ago A study in Nature Communications shows the record-breaking 2023 wildfire season in Canada was enabled by early snowmelt, drought, and extreme weather. It had profound impacts that included evacuati… -6.0
9d ago Today. Texas. Republican state. Trump supporters. Climate change deniers. Just last July. Same problem. Texas. Flooding kills kids at Camp Mystic. TEXAS STUPIDITY has a HIGH price to us taxp… -7.0
9d ago After more than 130 people died last year, the state Legislature passed measures to tighten safety for youth camps, fund flood warning sirens, expand weather monitoring infrastructure and invest hu… +2.0
9d ago Extreme heat warnings have been in place across multiple Canadian provinces, including most of Ontario and part of Quebec, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories - affecting millions of people. -4.0
9d ago Beavers did what millions in grey infrastructure couldn't. After beavers were reintroduced to an urban park in West London, flooding at Greenford Tube stopped, biodiversity boomed, and the council… +6.0
9d ago A major drought year hasn’t helped. In Virginia, the world capital for data centers, the entire state has been in drought all year and absolutely no one wants to hear localities tell households to … -6.0
9d ago "Iran fights back against US barbaric attacks on their water. In a country facing a heatwave of 50%, targeting water supplies for agriculture is killing future food production and affecting million… -8.0
9d ago why go for an outcome that whilst possible is outside the current administrations term of office? a wet bulb heatwave (millions dying in one day) or a super charged storm dropping a metre of rai… -8.5
10d ago In the mild, temperate, water-rich PNW we had a June 2021 heat dome that COOKED millions of sea creatures to death and completely killed the notion that we were safe here. We're in drought rn actua… -7.0
10d ago Climate change isn't just about heatwaves or rising seas. It's about food. Crop failures are becoming frequent as extreme weather intensifies. If harvests fail across multiple regions, food prices … -5.0
10d ago Millions of families across the U.S. are under heat warnings this week — and extreme heat can be more dangerous for children than many realize. Here's what you need to know about heat waves, and … ×3 -1.5
8d ago 📰 #Finance "At least 178 million Americans are breathing in smoky air, enduring high heat or contending with catastrophic flooding. That’s more than half of the US population." -5.5
8d ago When I have mentioned Hurricane Maria, or the bombing of fishing boats but Trump administration to Americans I mostly get blank stares -4.5
8d ago “European reticence seems grounded in the notion that the climate is natural while conditioning it is the kind of tech fix associated with big-living Texas trillionaires who admire authoritarian le… -3.5
8d ago This fossil-fueled smoke event is going to kill thousands of Americans. June's fossil-fueled heat wave in Europe killed over 10,000 people. Climate polluters are genocidal criminals and they need… -9.0
8d ago Despite the administration’s insistence climate change is a “scam,” the extreme weather caused by [it] has sparked > 800 wildfires in Canada & at least 12 in northern Minnesota. Smoke from the fire… -6.5
8d ago Climate scientists throughout the 90s and Oughts: Climate change will bring more frequent, more intense heatwaves, wildfires and hurricanes; larger precipitation variability, flooding and drought S… -4.0
8d ago Dangerous heat wave spreads across 30 U.S. states, putting nearly 160 million Americans at risk ahead of Fourth of July weekend. NYC could exceed 100°F as cooling centers open nationwide. #Climate … -4.5
9d ago Canada is burning Texas is flooding. The Native Americans are probably like look what these fucking white people did to our land with their greed and selfishness. -8.0

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T3 Historically low water level in two crucial US reservoirs 📄 weather_drought wtae.com parched, worrying, vulnerable
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T3 Historically low water level in two crucial US reservoirs 📄 weather_drought kcci.com alarming, depleted, critical
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T3 Historically low water level in two crucial US reservoirs 📄 weather_drought kcra.com alarming, parched, critical
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T3 Millions of Americans brace for potential water and power cuts as two crucial US reservoirs plunge to historic lows weather_drought the-sun.com anxious, vulnerable, dire
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