Opinion: It may be small comfort for those along the Colorado River, but rapidly dwindling water levels across the globe offer a lesson for us all.
By Phil Boas|| The Arizona Republic
In Arizona, we have been lately hyper-focused on our diminishing Colorado River water supply and what it means for our future.
We’ve watched the receding water lines that reveal historic relics and what may be the hidden skeletons of the Vegas mob families.
We’ve been so hyper-focused, many of us have failed to see the bigger picture – the bigger and more disturbing picture.
Many of the great rivers of the world are starting to dry up – at once.
From the Yangtze to the Rhine to the Danube to the Tiber and Po to the Elbe and the Volga – spanning not just continents but much of the globe.
