{
  "id": 11233702,
  "title": "The Colorado River is shrinking. What happens next?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/the-colorado-river-is-shrinking-what-happens-next",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-01T15:55:58.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/01/colorado-river-nevada-shrinking"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Lake Mead is at its lowest level since it was filled nearly 90 years ago, Lake Powell also at a historic low It was 42C (108F) degrees as we motored across Nevada’ s Lake Mead in our rented pontoon boat. Colby Pellegrino with the Southern Nevada Water Authority wanted to show us something we shouldn’t have been able to see. She pointed toward a rock island where a large metal pipe was sticking…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}