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Dan Bunk of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation helped create the model predicting a shortage declaration in Lake Mead by 2020. (Corey Hawk/Cronkite News)

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LAKE MEAD — Swaths of mineral-stained white rock, more than 100 feet tall, mark Lake Mead’s basin, punctuating decades of drought in the Southwest. At one point, the white rock was underwater.

By COREY HAWK, Cronkite News Service October 22, 2018