Beautiful Depressing Colorado River Drought Photos; Huge Sandstorm Makes Dubai Look Like Mars

(Before It's News)

These Photos Of Drought In The Colorado River Basin Are Beautiful And Depressing. The basin provides water for more than 40 million people in the Southwest through a series of reservoirs. But the water is disappearing… fast.

A Huge Sandstorm Made Dubai Look Like Mars. A major sandstorm whipped through the Mideast’s commercial hub of Dubai and other Gulf cities on Thursday, reducing visibility, diverting flights and making breathing outside a challenge.

• David Suzuki: Without Water We Die; 4 States Work to Ban Microbeads
• California Exempts Thirstiest Big Growers; California Used 70M Gallons of Water for Fracking in 2014
• California Snowpack at 6%; CA Water Restrictions Don’t Address Abuses
• World Population Video; What Our Crowded, Imperiled Planet Looks Like
• OVER (Book); Global Food Import Dependence Leaves Countries Vulnerable
• UN Calls for Action in Water Crisis; Vast Dust Bowls Threaten Millions with Hunger
• Subsidies for Deforestation 100x Aid to Prevent It; Amazon Carbon Uptake Declines as Trees Die Faster
• GMOs Won’t Feed the World; Kenya Wind Powers Green Growth for Whom?
• Climate Change in the Family; California Water Cutbacks Mandatory 1st Time in History
• Indonesia Models in Gas Masks; Agroecology Revolutionizing Farming