February 12, 2007--Receding El Nino Leaving West Dry (Albuquerque Journal)
El Nino is dwindling, diminishing the odds for a spring wet enough to refill the West's parched reservoirs...That means just average flows in the Rio Grande. That is not good news for Elephant Butte reservoir, which started February with just less than half the water it normally has this time of year. Things are even worse in Arizona, where the preliminary forecast calls for sub-par flow of the Colorado River into Lake Powell, which currently has 63 percent of its normal water supply for this time of year.
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