Good morning, readers.
It's been hot and dry throughout much of the country this summer, and it's about to get even worse for states at the bottom of the Colorado River. Lake Mead, normally the largest reservoir in the U.S., has been losing volume at a prodigious pace.
Lake Mead sits on the Colorado River just upstream from the Utah-Arizona border — Arizona, Nevada and California all draw from water released from the reservoir, as does Mexico — and the Department of Interior is implementing…
