The biggest carbon polluters are to blame for half of U.S. western water lost to climate change, ‘groundbreaking’ paper says

Study blames fossil fuel emissions for significant loss of American West's water

“People living in the western United States have been paying the price for climate-change-fueled droughts and fires with their health, livelihoods and wallets,” said Emily Williams, the study’s lead author …

122 Companies Are Quietly Sucking the West Dry, Study Finds

A first-of-its-kind study found that carbon-major emissions have drained trillions of gallons of water from the West.

The biggest carbon polluters are to blame for half of U.S. western water lost to climate change, ‘groundbreaking’ paper says

Some of the most impactful changes have come in the stressed Colorado River basin.