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Dead pool: How climate change and dwindling resources are fuelling America’s water wars

With the country’s western states experiencing the most severe drought in 1,200 years and no agreement on how to reduce their collective drain on the Colorado river, crops wither and parched residents suffer as political and legal battles wage

Fish carcasses on the dried mud flats at one of the shuttered marinas at Lake Mead in Las Vegas, Nevada: America’s western states are in the midst of the worst drought in 1,200 years. Picture: Getty