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US drought to deplete Lake Mead to levels not seen since 1930s [1]

Drought in the south-western US will deplete the vast Lake Mead this week to levels not seen since Hoover Dam was completed and the reservoir on the Colorado River was filled in the 1930s, federal

Publication Date: 
09/07/2014
Guardian (UK) [2]
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Droughts [3], Natural Disasters [4], United States Of America (US) [5], Water Resources [6], Lakes [7]
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