An extensive analysis warns that water in the Colorado River basin’s reservoirs is being depleted at rates threatening to result in severe problems unless urgent federal actions are taken to cut down dramatically on the current level of use of the river’s water. Margaret Garcia, an associate professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, part of the Fulton Schools, says an analysis of the situation clearly confirms the severity of the situation. Garcia notes the already extremely dry conditions in the river basin reservoirs. To achieve better water security in the future, she says, those reservoirs must at the least be able to better generate hydro power and to store substantially more water.