reservoir
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The area is renowned for being one of the most picturesque in Los Angeles, boasting a beautiful reservoir with a large walking loop around the outside, as well as multiple boutique stores and restaurants.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
If reservoir levels continue to fall, it allows for larger mandatory water cuts of up to 3 million acre-feet per year in California, Arizona and Nevada — as much as 40% of the combined allotments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States, has plummeted to its lowest water level since it was created some 90 years ago, the latest sign of the water crisis on the Colorado River.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Then comes river flow drought, where river levels fall, and, finally, if dry conditions persist for long enough, groundwater and reservoir levels decline, leading to the most serious impacts.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
This made him uncomfortable enough that finally, before he came to the many-eyed cluster of shops closest to his house, he stopped by the reservoir to put the top back up.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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And the nation’s largest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Powell, have dropped to their lowest levels on record.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Warming temperatures risk drying up the reservoirs necessary to run the world’s power plants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Hydrologists should know by February or March whether aquifers and and human-made reservoirs have been replenished.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
And in the last quarter-century, relentless drought intensified by climate change has sapped the river’s flow and left its reservoirs severely depleted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Despite constant maintenance, erosion silted up reservoirs, hurricanes destroyed terraces, and weeds and sediment choked irrigation networks.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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