As the extreme drought gripping the American West enters its third year, water levels in Lake Mead, the largest manmade reservoir in the U.S., have fallen to their lowest levels since the construction of the Hoover Dam.
As the extreme drought gripping the American West enters its third year, water levels in Lake Mead, the largest manmade reservoir in the U.S., which supplies water to tens of millions of people, have fallen to their lowest levels since the construction of the Hoover Dam in the 1930s.
On the same day, as a result of the lake’s falling water level, the Southern Nevada Water Authority activated a new low-lake-level pumping station completed in April so that the state will continue to be able to supply residents with water. "It's the worst it's ever been," Colby Pellegrino, deputy general manager of resources of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, told theThis week, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California issued restrictions on roughly 6 million customers that are set to begin on June 1 due to water shortages in Lake Mead and the Colorado River. The restrictions prohibit residents from watering lawns and plants more than one day per week.
"Not only is this drought continuing to chug along, it's proceeding at as full-steam pace as it ever has been," Parker Williams, a climate scientist at UCLA,Williams is an author of a new study published in Nature Climate Change that shows that warmer temperatures linked to excess greenhouse gas emissions have made the Western drought 40% more severe, and that the current drought will likely drag on through 2030.
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