The water level of Lake Mead, which was created in the 1930s with the completion of the Hoover Dam, continues to fall. It has dropped 180 feet since 1983.
If Lake Mead were to fall below its "dead pool" level of 895 feet, Hoover Dam would be unable to release water downriver to California, Arizona, and Mexico, according to the"We are 150 feet from 25 million Americans losing access to the Colorado River, and the rate of decline is accelerating," John Entsminger, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, said last week, according to the news outlet.
Touton added that the Colorado River is the largest and most urgent focus, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. "There is so much to this that is unprecedented," Touton, a Nevada native, told lawmakers. "But unprecedented is now the reality and the normal in which Reclamation must manage our system, for warmer, drier weather is what we are facing."Extreme drought conditions have unearthed a hidden town at the Rockport Reservoir in Summit County, Utah, captured in drone footage on September 11, 2021.
The pipeline near the bottom of the lake was completed in 2015 and built so that Las Vegas can still get water if the lake’s surface drops below two other intake pipes. "Without the third intake, Southern Nevada would be shutting its doors," Pat Mulroy, former longtime chief of the Las Vegas-based water authority, who is now a consultant, told the Associated Press in April. "That’s pretty obvious since the first straw is out of the water."
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