Savage drought will drive Lake Mead to record low on Sunday

[Newsjock]

Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal

Sunday’s forecast for Lake Mead calls for breezy conditions, with a high in the low 80s and a water level as low as it has been in 78 years.

The reservoir east of Las Vegas is expected to reach a new record low this weekend and continue downward another 7 feet through June, as the drought-stricken Colorado River withers from its 12th dry year since 2000.

The latest projections by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation call for the new record to arrive sometime after midnight Sunday, when the surface of Lake Mead dips below the current low-water mark, set on Aug. 13, 2014, of 1,080.19 feet above sea level.

The last time Lake Mead was this low was May 1937, the same month as the Hindenburg explosion. The reservoir then was filling for the first time behind the new Hoover Dam.

Read more: http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada/savage-drought-will-drive-lake-mead-record-low-sunday

[betterdemsonly]

1. Really frightening.

Has California a plan for what it will do if the crisis does go on for another year?

[ErikJ]

2. Its Las Vegas. Does Calif get water from Lake Mead? nt

[sakabatou]

3. I think so. Or Southern California does.

[OnlinePoker]

5. There's a mandatory amount of water that has to be released on the Colorado

When the agreement was done, I'm pretty sure they never envisioned massive cities being built in the middle of deserts sucking water out of the Colorado River basin. Only way to fix this mess is mandatory emigration back to the northeast where the water supply is more stable.

[OxQQme]

6. Los Angeles has priority rights to the water in Lake Mead

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_in_California#The_State_Water_Project

[daleanime]

4. If? I wonder how many good years of waterfall are needed....

to return the state to the old 'normal'? This problem isn't going away any time soon, if ever.