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Climate Change Videos
WATER SUPPLY CONFLICTS: Climate change is a huge threat to California's water supply, as explained by Michael Hanneman of the California Climate Change Center at UC Berkeley. LESSONS FROM AUSTRALIA: Paul Dalby of the International Center of Excellence in Water Resource Management discusses how Americans can learn from Australia's prolonged drought. TEXAS DROUGHT: The Texas Farm Bureau traveled to the driest part of Texas to see how farmers and ranchers are coping with the worst Central Texas drought in almost 100 years. |
The states dependent on the Colorado River for their water are seeking solutions to their water shortage, with some suggesting that importing water from far-flung states could solve the problems.
It's hard to visualize a water crisis while driving the lush boulevards of Los Angeles or golfing Arizona's green fairways. So look Down Under. A decade into its worst drought in a hundred years
Australia is a lesson
of what the West could become. 
By the end of the century, sea levels may rise twice as much as was predicted two years ago in the fourth assessment report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 