Tens of millions of people rely on water from the nation's largest reservoir, which is part of the Colorado River Basin.

Languages: English. "BEFORE & AFTER | Hoover Dam 1983-2023 : Updated photos illustrate high water level for each year (2023 ongoing) As of today, Lake Mead is riding its yearly high at 1,066.29 ft ...

Lake Mead, America’s largest reservoir, has fluxuated in elevation by several hundred feet since the Hoover Dam’s completion in 1935. St. Thomas is submerged in the 1930s The Mormon settlement ...

As of Monday, Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States, was filled to 27% capacity, according to NASA. The photos shared by the NASA Earth Observatory, taken in 2000, 2021 and 2022 ...

Recent satellite images from NASA show the dramatic water loss that has occurred over the last 22 years at drought-stricken Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir and a lifeline for ...

A formerly submerged boat sticks straight out of newly exposed ground at Lake Mead. Photo: John Locher (AP) Start Slideshow Stranded boats, desiccated fish, and no water on cracked ground that ...

(AP Photo/John Locher) Receding waters of Lake Mead National Recreation Area have revealed the skeletal remains of two people along with countless desiccated fish and what has become a graveyard ...

Lake Mead, once at critically low levels in 2022 and nearing dead-pool status, is now experiencing a remarkable turnaround. Recent data shows that water levels are rising significantly, driven by ...

I was there to document one of the latest objects to emerge from Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States, serving the needs of some 20 million people in the Desert Southwest.

open image in gallery A ring of dead fish, placed in a circle by a visitor, lining the dried lakebed of Lake Mead (AP) The current drought is part of the ongoing “megadrought” in the western ...

Its epitaph might read: Here lay the waters of Lake Mead. The largest US reservoir has shrunken to a record low amid a punishing drought and the demands of 40 million people in seven states who ...