An ongoing drought is on course to reduce the River's water level to a 34 year low, with 1,700 barges left jammed on the waterway after one ran aground. Shocking video shows the river nearly hollowed out, with deep stretches of riverbed visible on both sides as little pools of water run through the middle in parts of . Climate experts say that if the drought continues, the Mississippi will beat its previous low-water crisis record, which was set in 1988.
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