Σκληρή ξηρασία στερεύει την μεγαλύτερη δεξαμενή νερού στο Νέο Μεξικό (και μόνο από τις φωτογραφίες το καταλαβαίνεις).Harsh drought is drying up New Mexico’s largest reservoir (just look at the pictures)

Here it was in June 1994 at 89 percent capacity 

Right now, El Paso’s drier than an cow bone baking in the Chihuahuan Desert, and an important source of water for drinking and farming has shrunk into the sandy puddle you see below.

And this was the sorry state of the reservoir on July 8 of this year 

The vast desolation of the Elephant Butte Reservoir — named so not because of the presence of pachyderms, but due to a hump in the landscape vaguely shaped like a hulking animal — is a weighty concern for residents of El Paso, who get about half their water from it. During flush times in the late 1980s and ’90s, the ‘phant contained nearly 2.2 million acre-feet of agua and was the largest reservoir in New Mexico. Today, however, it holds only 3 percent of that amount (65,057 acre-feet) and is at its lowest level in four decades.

http://grist.org/article/harsh-drought-is-drying-up-new-mexicos-largest-reservoir/

Harsh drought is drying up New Mexico’s largest reservoir

http://lynleahz.com/2013/08/01/harsh-drought-is-drying-up-new-mexicos-largest-reservoir/

NASA Earth Observatory

And this was the sorry state of the reservoir on July 8 of this year (larger):

Read more at http://investmentwatchblog.com/harsh-drought-is-drying-up-new-mexicos-largest-reservoir-just-look-at-the-pictures/#WcktpicEodzYHbls.99