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NEW DELHI TO MUNICH TO BARCELONA

 From NBC News: New satellite images from NASA show how Lake Mead's shoreline has mineralized and the water level has fallen over the past 22 years. It now sits at just 27% capacity. The largest reservoir in the country, on the Nevada-Arizona border, is nearly unrecognizable, a “stark illustration of climate change,” according to NASA.   Read the full story   here . What is particularly frightening is the change from 2021 to 2022.  The lake actually filled to capacity in 1983 and 1999.  However, today the level equals the lowest point since April of 1937 when it was first being filled.  According to NASA: The largest reservoir in the United States supplies water to millions of people across seven states, tribal lands, and northern Mexico. It now also provides a stark illustration of  climate change  and a  long-term drought  that may be the worst in the U.S. West in 12 centuries. Today is nostalgia day, and I again insert two postings from an around the world trip I started on 17 J