Nature World News: A new study reports that drying climates in the American West will lead to a decrease in annual stream flow. In the Salt Lake City region, for example, researchers report the region could see as much as a 6.5 percent drop in the annual flow of streams that provide water to the city.
Writing in the journal Earth Interactions, a research team reports that by the middle of the century some of the streams that provide water to Salt Lake City will dry up several weeks earlier in the summer and fall....