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The Western U.S. is heavily reliant on mountain snowpacks and their gradual melt for water storage and supply.
Climate change is expected to upend the reliability of this natural process.
By the end of the century , many areas could have less than half the water they have historically relied on to refill their reservoirs.
Water conservation measures like changes in crop type and extent were more stable adaptive strategies than changes to reservoir capacity.
The study shows that there will be a stark decline in how much many of these communities will be able to refill their reservoirs in just a few decades .
Some communities will see declines to about half of the water they were historically able to store.
A drop that significant is particularly acute in many of the smaller reservoirs that can only hold about a year 's worth of water.
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