In the United States, Lake Mead, the American Mirror of Climate Change
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A whole system irrigating seven western states and two massive dams is threatened.
The limestone deposit, left by the water that has disappeared for a quarter of a century, now reaches 57 meters higher than the Arc de Triomphe. "It's really impressive," says AFP Choune Osterero, a French tourist, according to whom the effects of climate change on the lake "are seen with the naked eye". The decline of the waters brings out carcasses of boats and animals, but also an unease: since the early 2000s, the American West has suffered …
On the heights of Mead Lake, near Las Vegas, drought grows the largest reservoir in the United States at its lowest historical level, and draws a gigantic white aureole on the surrounding mountains.
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