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As the West descends deeper into drought, climate and water experts are growing increasingly alarmed by California’s severely shriveling reservoirs.
On Monday, Shasta Lake the largest reservoir in the state held a scant 1.57 million acre-feet of water, according to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, or about 35% of its capacity.
A series of satellite images captured by NASA show just how dramatically the water level has fallen.
One image from July 2019 shows a fuller Shasta Lake surrounded by green banks. This year, that greenness has been replaced by a tan “bathtub ring” lining the lake bed, indicating the degree to which water has fallen.
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July 15, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Transparency International Pakistan has approached the prime minister’s office with the request that the inquiry into The News story about the loss of $753.7 million (around Rs 100 billion) caused to the exchequer during the execution by Chairman WAPDA of a project in Tunnel-4 of the Tarbela Dam Project was wrongly closed by the Ministry of Water Resources (MOWR).
In a letter issued on Wednesday and addressed to the principal secretary to the prime minister, the TI Pakistan said: “We reject the MOWR assertion that the prime minister ordered the inquiry to be closed on 8.5.2019, which is clearly an attempt to divert the blame from themselves.”
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