00:00as some of america's largest reservoir sink to record lows a new study says drought isn't the
00:05only thing to blame researchers found that just 122 fossil fuel and cement companies
00:10known as the carbon majors are responsible for roughly half the water lost to climate change
00:16across the american west the study published august 25th in communications earth and environment
00:21looked at companies including bp chevron exxon mobile and shell using data from 2014 to 24.
00:29researchers found snowpack and streamflow declined sharply and traced about half of that loss
00:34directly to these companies emissions altogether the drain adds up to roughly 9 trillion gallons
00:40about the same as the full capacity of lake mead the country's largest reservoir carbon majors have
00:46accounted for nearly 70 percent of industrial carbon dioxide emissions since 1985 most of it released
00:53after the 1950s disclosure this video contains stock footage and content created or enhanced
00:58advanced using ai-assisted tools
00:59you
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