Climate change threatens new dust bowl in Southwest

Changing climate will mean increasing drought in the Southwest — a region where water already is in tight supply — according to a new study.

"The bottom line message for the average person and also for the states and federal government is that they’d better start planning for a Southwest region in which the water resources are increasingly stretched," said Richard Seager of Columbia University’s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory.

By Randolph E. Schmid, Associated Press

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