Lake Mead’s water levels this week dropped to historic lows, bringing the nation’s largest reservoir less than 150 feet away from “dead pool” — when the reservoir is so low that water cannot flow downstream from the dam.
Lake Mead’s water level on Wednesday was measured at 1,044.03 feet, its lowest elevation since the lake was filled in the 1930s.
If the reservoir dips below 895 feet — a possibility still years away — Lake Mead would reach dead pool, carrying enormous consequences for millions of people across Arizona, California, Nevada and parts of Mexico.
“This is deadly serious stuff,” said Robert Glennon, an emeritus professor at the University of Arizona who specializes in water law and policy.
Persistent drought conditions over the past two decades, exacerbated by increased water demands across the southwestern United States, have contributed to Lake Mead’s depletion.
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Though the reservoir is at risk of becoming a dead pool, it would most likely take several more years to reach that level, Glennon said.
In the meantime, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and water managers across the southwestern United States are making efforts to manage the flow of water into the Colorado River and regulate water use among states in the region.
These measures are designed to help replenish Lake Mead, which was created on the Colorado River on the Arizona-Nevada border when the Hoover Dam was built in the early 1930s, and another severely depleted reservoir, Lake Powell, which was created along the border of Utah and Arizona.
Dead pool would not mean that there was no water left in the reservoir, but even before Lake Mead were to hit that point, there are concerns that water levels could fall so low that the production of hydroelectric power would be hindered. [NBCNews]
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It won’t take
years for it to dip that low.Why oh Why do people depend on one river for multiple states.
Man’s folly
They need left coast desalinization plants. They won’t do it either. They want to collpase the system, a la Cloward-Piven, to usher in the Great Reset. Enslavement and misery for all.
Same holds true for the Green New Steal. There’s way too many products that are petroleum-based, the electric vehicles are one small slice. Heavy machinery, military machinery, and Industrial machinery won’t run of solar or batteries. It fails, on purpose. Aircraft running on electricity?
I don’t see it. Power grid won’t support this nonsense. Most electrical power is coal derived too. They are closing coal and nuclear power plants like crazy.
.50cal try gt out of big cities and live in suburb cities… Soon the conditions as much as tomorrow Roe vs wade will be turn then
riots will be followed… A divided nations will not be last long for ever… I say so what we have all differences , we must celebrate it and we can change laws with peaceful demonstrations like Gandhi… We do not need to be make this nations in to 50 nations? Unless we like Queen of London?
Well, a monsoon storm dropped at least 5″ on my ranch, and right after praying for rain too. My pond filled up enough for ducks to go putting around. Air is fresh, and we have seven more days of storms forecast. Orchard looks very well saturated, and roads have huge puddles.
I invested in 2,500 gallon water tanks. 8 of ’em. Prices went way up. Double cost on last 2. The others were from 2017.
More rain happening here. Don’t have to water my 300 trees for a while. So damn hot last few weeks. I soak my t-shirt, wring it out, and wear it. In 10 minutes it’s dry. So rain is a blessing. Thank you, Christ Jesus.