Vanishing snowpacks will impact on millions of people

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any people in the world depend upon a melting snowpack for their water.

Climate change is changing the behaviour of snowpacks and as the resulting flow of water lessens the use of water is going to become even more restricted, limiting it use as both drinking water and as a source of much needed water for agriculture.
Much parts of the U.S. is dependent on melting snow, but now the Seattle Times has reported that all mountain stations across Washington that measure snowpack are reporting the same number: zero.

Read the story - “Snowpack? What snowpack? State measurements show zero”.