Living in Vegas, this hits home. It's where we get our water from. Why is this happening? Simple. Too many people demanding something that has never been available in great quantities. The same thing going on here that's going on in California. Keep it up and we'll see a lot more of these: Read more @ Lake Mead Shrivels to Historic Low Level. In Just Two Years, the Change is Dramatic Enough to be Visible from Space - ImaGeo | DiscoverMagazine.com
San Francisco gets a lot of water from Lake Berryessa up in Napa valley. While I was at Mare Island for an overhaul, they had an 18 month drought. The lake's level dropped over 70 feet. People with docks had to stake ladders to the lake bottom and climb down well over a hundred feet to get to their boats. But don't worry. I'm sure this will be offset by new water supplies from what had been snow and ice up north. Right?
Lake Mead gettin' smaller and smaller... Water's Edge: A Shrinking River Threatens the U.S. Southwest The desert sun beats down from a cloudless sky as Las Vegas landscaper Mat Baroudi roars across Lake Mead in his motorboat.
Lake Mead is getting smaller because too many people are using it? Ridiculous! Everyone knows humans have zero impact on the earth, it's resources, or the environment!
hahahahahhahahahahahaha another illiterate post by a lib. Lake Meade is man made f00l. wow the stoopid in here never takes a day off.
yep man made and man used it up. So nothing unusual about it. No climate, no warming, man used it up.
i give two hoots if the water is gone, I don't live there. It will turn back into a river like it was before the dam went in.
Lake Mead almost gone... With Extended Drought, Biggest US Reservoir at Lowest Level Ever May 30, 2016 - The 16-year drought in parts of the western United States has dropped the water level in the country's largest reservoir at Lake Mead to its lowest level in its 81-year history.