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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 ...
New satellite images by NASA show how Lake Mead's water levels have dramatically dropped over the past two decades.
Lake Mead sits at 27 percent of capacity, its lowest level since 1937. Long stretches of shoreline now sit dry or in the muddy remnants of the lake. As Lake Mead reaches record-low level ...
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 ...
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.
The new images show Lake Mead creating a “bathtub ring,” a phenomenon where there’s a light-colored outline where water used to be. When the lake was at capacity, water would fill those areas.
Water levels at Lake Mead, the nation's largest reservoir, have hit their lowest levels in history, as the western U.S. remains in the grips of a megadrought. Lake Mead's water level drops to ...
Lake Kaweah is a reservoir near Lemon Cove in Tulare County, California. The lake is formed by Terminus Dam on the Kaweah River . The river originates in the Sierra Nevada and drains about 560 sq mi (1,500 km 2 ) into Lake Kaweah before flowing towards the San Joaquin Valley .