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fedly melton snowpack from the western rockies. it winds down to the gulf of california, supplying water to seven states along the way, but the basin is now in it s 22nd year of drought. this is clearly evident further downriver at the end of the nevada/arizona border, where the river flows into lake mead, the largest recent sorry in the nation, which 25 million peopleon for water. has it been this low before? not since 1937 when it was filled. so we re anticipating to be in the first-ever shortage condition in history. reporter: in fact lake mead is 143 feet below full capacity and has shed ha mind-boggling 5.5 trillion gallons of water in the last 20 years. the low water levels mean power generation at the hoover dam is down 25%. no one can tell with any certainty, but we can all hope that the future will be wetter.

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