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As climate change cuts the flow of the Colorado river, drought-like conditions in the American Southwest may become the norm.
There’s been a drought in the Southwestern U.S. since 1998, but that hasn’t stopped the population in the region from rising by a million people per year. Brian Mann reports on the Colorado River’s struggle to meet growing water demands in the Southwest.