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reservoirs on the Colorado River that are already critically low, will not be replenished due to the lack
low that even a string of consecutive record-breaking snowy years would not meaningfully refill the reservoirs with runoff. About 36% of Arizona's water comes from the Colorado River
Colorado River provides water to some 40 million people in the American west. But the two massive reservoirs filled by the river, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, both stand at historically low
Colorado River that could cut up to 40% of current supplies to Arizona, [California](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/california) and Nevada, as the waterway’s reservoirs continue to plunge to critically low
River](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2880890/) in South Korea, where the first virus belonging to the family was isolated in 1978. By that time, researchers had tried for decades to identify the cause of what was known