NBC News, on Climate, 13 November 2026

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Rains have hammered the Southwest. For the Colorado River, it’s merely a dent.

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NBC News reports that two months of rain sent more than a million Olympic swimming pools' worth of water into Lake Powell, but that this barely dents the Colorado River's drought deficit. The text we were given holds only two sentences of reporting, followed by subscriber links that are not part of the story. Nothing in those two sentences misleads the reader, and the headline matches what they say.

What it gets right

  • “given the scale of the deficit in the drought-starved Colorado River, it’s just a trickle”

    The article sets the rainfall gain against the size of the river's drought deficit. A reader does not come away thinking the drought is over, and the headline's "merely a dent" rests on this line.

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