updated information August 3, 2022 Western U.S. faces water and power shortages due to climate change, U.N. warns Ben Adler · Senior Editor Tue, August 2, 2022 at 5:12 PM The two largest reservoirs in the United States are at “dangerously low levels,” threatening the supply of fresh water and electricity in six states and Mexico, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) warned on Tuesday . Lake Mead and Lake Powell, which are both man-made reservoirs on the Colorado River, are currently at their lowest levels ever, in part because of an ongoing drought exacerbated by climate change ================= The Return of the Urban Firestorm What happened in Colorado was something much scarier than a wildfire. By David Wallace-Wells from above article On Thursday afternoon, in the space of a few hours just a day before the new year, 100-plus mile-per-hour winds carried the most destructive fire in Colorado history through the