America is experiencing a historic, destructive megadrought. Can another country, built in the middle of a desert, provide us with a roadmap for our future?
Scripps News and The Great Salt Lake Collaborative, which is a group of newsrooms working together to cover the lake and find solutions, partnered for an exclusive special, "The Great American Drought."
![A home sits in rising floodwaters after a levee break caused extensive flooding around Corcoran, Calif.](https://ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com/f5/a2/846a8a614e8283e0b1d178e6ad99/1680445057-vl127k.jpg)
The US leads the world in weather catastrophes. Here's why
Nature dealt the United States a bad hand, but people have made it much worse by what, where and how we build.