So how have Lake Mead's levels changed throughout 2023? In January 2023, the lake's water levels stood at 1,044.96 feet. This was only a few feet higher than the lowest point ever recorded, which ...

Lake Mead water levels currently stand at 1,070.31 feet. ... but they are still more than half empty," Jennifer Pitt, Colorado River program director for the National Audubon Society, ...

Lake Mead's water levels are projected to be the lowest in recorded history by 2027, according to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The lake, which was first filled in 1935, is already only 31 ...

A barrel is exposed near tumbleweed at Lake Mead on Boulder Beach at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area on Dec. 27, ... which now sit at roughly three-quarters empty. ...

Lake Mead, the largest U.S. reservoir has shrunken to a record low amid a punishing drought and the demands of 40 million people in seven states who are sucking the Colorado River dry.

Lake Mead, once the largest water reservoir in the US, now little more than a graveyard . ... the light illuminates the translucent hollowed-out body and empty eye socket of one fish.

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BOULDER CITY, Nev. — An abandoned old power boat juts upright from the cracked mud like a giant tombstone. Its epitaph might read: Here lay the waters of Lake Mead. The largest U.S. reservoir has ...

Adding all the remaining water in Mead to Powell would not fill it, and would leave Mead empty. ... In two years, river farms use the equivalent of 100% of recent annual flow into Lake Mead.

That helped bring Lake Powell up to 38% in July 2023 after the reservoir hit a record low of 22% in February of that year. That was followed by another good snow year for the basin basin, with ...

Dead and desiccated fish arranged by a visitor to the Lake Mead National Recreation Area stick out of cracked mud Tuesday, June 28, 2022, near Boulder City, Nev. (AP Photo/John Locher) ...