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Chad Taylor, 44, cools off at a remote beach near the middle of the drought-stricken Lake Mead on July 12, 2022, in Las Vegas. The water levels at Lake Mead are at historic lows.
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.
That supplies about 60% of the food for the nation that's grown in the United States."The lake is filled from the Colorado River as snow melts from the mountains. In 1999, it was at 97% capacity.
From mid-May 2011 to January 22, 2012, Lake Mead's water elevation increased from 1,095.5 to 1,134.52 feet (333.91 to 345.80 m) after a heavy snowmelt in the Rocky Mountains prompted the release of an extra 3.3 million acre-feet (4,100,000 ML) from Glen Canyon into Lake Mead. [24] Cross-section of the Hoover Dam showing notable levels of Lake Mead
As the drought gripping the American West enters its third year, water levels in Lake Mead, which supplies water to tens of millions of people, are at their lowest since the construction of the ...
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. ...
By surface area, Lake Huron is the second-largest of the Great Lakes, with a surface area of 23,007 square miles (59,590 km 2)—of which 9,103 square miles (23,580 km 2) lies in Michigan and 13,904 square miles (36,010 km 2) lies in Ontario—making it the third-largest fresh water lake on Earth (or the fourth-largest lake, if the Caspian Sea ...
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 ...