Lake Mead Water Level Update as Las Vegas Goes 221 Days Without Rain
Las Vegas has now gone 212 days without rain, and all of Clark County is under either extreme or exceptional drought, but water levels at Lake Mead keep rising. Newsweek reached out to the National ...
Lake Mead: Colorado Snowpack Adds to Water Woes
Latest estimates place the Upper Colorado River Basin snowpack at just 83 percent of the historic median for this time of ...
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Parched Las Vegas loses a water source as drought depletes Lake Mead
The water supply for Las Vegas has marked a milestone, with a water intake breaking the surface of drought-depleted Lake Mead and the activation of a new pumping facility to draw water from deeper ...
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Extreme drought returns to parts of Utah as dry conditions intensify statewide
Extreme drought has returned to Utah for the first time in nearly two years, but a weekend storm could help parts of the ...
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Is Lake Mead in peril? Snowpack declines in the West, worrying some
Lake Mead’s less-than-rosy future Such a problem ... for taking cuts to their share of the river in times of extreme drought. A lengthy court battle is on the table — a last-resort that ...
Colorado snowpack, after a dry January, is near normal in north — and dismal in some places
A dry January across Colorado and the rest of the Rocky Mountain West has created a dichotomy of water haves and have-nots.
Lake Powell: Water Flows To Drop 24% Below Normal Say Forecasters
A rocky start to the year has put water flows through America's second-largest reservoir on track to decline, unless ...
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Cascades Aquifer Found To Have Nearly Three Times As Much Water As Lake Mead
but shrinking snowpack due to climate change has been exacerbating drought across the western U.S. from year to year. According to The Nature Conservancy, water security is at risk in every ...