People keep moving here from other regions, we keep building houses but not more water storage.
HOA's will no longer be able to say no to drought resistant landscape. A shit ton of water used is for irrigation. Most people have nice green lawns.
Pictures of Mead being 60-100 feet low are real, so are the ones of Powell. Yet those two still hold enough for us to survive for years to come.
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Fact of the matter really is we've had very dry winters the past decade and not gotten the rain we normally expect. Reserves are lower than normal but not bone dry by any means. One really good winter could bring it back. Historically the dry decades have been followed by very wet years. My intuition is telling me we might see a wet one this year. Hope I'm right.