U.S.-UTAH-MEGADROUGHT

(221119) -- LOS ANGELES, Nov. 19, 2022 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Nov. 13, 2022 shows a dried up lakebed near Hite, a remote town at the north end of Lake Powell along the Colorado River in Utah, the United States. Moderate to severe drought extended from the U.S. West Coast to the Rocky Mountains with large areas of extreme and pockets of exceptional drought, the latest monthly drought report from the National Centers for Environmental Information said, while many residents in the West got much more nervous than those cold words. TO GO WITH "Feature: Residents in U.S. West concerned over megadrought" (Photo by Zeng Hui/Xinhua)