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A comparison of Lake Mead water levels from July 2000 to July 2015. Lake Mead's water level rebounded a few feet by October 2015 and avoided triggering the drought restrictions. The water level started falling in Spring 2016 and fell below the drought trigger level of 1,075 feet again in May 2016.
More than 40 million people depend on Lake Mead for water. ... Water levels in much of nine states throughout the West have faced “some level of drought,” according to NASA. About 35% of those ...
The lake’s elevation has dropped 158 feet since its July 2000 level of 1,200 feet, and now is at 1,042 feet, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation data show. It has not been close to its full capacity of ...
Lake Mead, which is critical to both the supply of water and electricity across the southwestern United States, has shrunk dramatically over the past 20 years, jaw-dropping new satellite images ...
As of Aug. 17, the water level at Lake Mead is at only 1,067.73 feet -- 161.27 feet below the high water line of 1,229 feet. At this same time during 2020, the water level was at 1,084.01 feet. ...
Lake Mead National Recreation Area is a U.S. national recreation area in Southeastern Nevada and Northwestern Arizona.Operated by the National Park Service, Lake Mead NRA follows the Colorado River corridor from the westernmost boundary of Grand Canyon National Park to just north of the cities of Laughlin, Nevada and Bullhead City, Arizona.
The megadrought gripping the western United States has pushed Lake Mead's water level to historic lows, below an intake valve that first began supplying Nevada
A formerly sunken boat sits upright in the air with its stern stuck in the mud along the shoreline of Lake Mead at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Friday, June 10, 2022, near Boulder City ...