There is limited evidence of trends in meteorological or hydrological droughts over the historical record  and Seneviratne et al.  for multiple perspectives on drought; Wehner et al., 2017), but there is medium confidence in increasing atmospheric evaporative demand acting to intensify surface aridity during recent droughts  . The ongoing multi-decadal dry period in the Colorado River basin is as extreme as any drought in the past 1000 years .
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