Lake Mead, Nevada Satellite Time Lapse, 1984-2022.
I used Landsat 4,5,8,9 satellite images from 1984 -2022. Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the US in terms of water capacity and is formed by the Hoover Dam. The lake has remained below full capacity since 1983 due to drought and increased water demand.
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Now sync this with the population growth in the metro areas that Lake Mead/Lake Powell are serving. Baffling how many millions have moved into the desert all while wanting a impeccable grass on every front lawn and golf course. Not to mention the almond industry in California.
Most California Almonds are grown in Northern California which gets NO water from the Colorado River. We have our own water and many, many lakes.
It’s the farming and exportation of our water across seas
Farming in the desert for another country OR water for the for the MILLIONS of people of our great nation? I vote to TAKE CARE OR OUR OWN (for once)!
Lol agriculture not people is the problem. Over 80% of the Colorado river water is used for farming. Stop turning the desert into farmland is the real problem. You have no clue what is going on.
Ok Great Lake being used as a reservoir is still full even though Several large cities pull water explain why it isn't empty! Why are you only considering Lake Mead??? What about all the otger's that have ALL just vanished in 2 year's!!! Use more than one brain cell because they told you to believe it!!
Who'd have thought that building a reservoir in the desert would lead to a steady water loss!?
Hydroelectric power source too 🥴
The lord gave us more water then land plus desalination plants
Ikr who was the genius that thought that would work
Las vegas has no impact on water loss more it lost 0.6 mafy than vegas uses 0.3 mafy,now arizona uses alot 2.8 mafy. A water pipeline like say to a flooding yellowstone solves all issues
you have lake powell restricting water from flowing down the colorado and lake mead having to release water south to feed california, but no it's vegas fault for being in a desert
Much respect to the cameraman. It´s incredible what you can do now a days!
I can’t believe he flapped his arms that long to stay up there while also holding his head completely still to get a clear shot with his head mounted camera. Much respect!
@@Ham24brand yeah, since the eighties.
@@Ham24brand Yeah and he never spilled his beer the entire time.
They’ve known for over 20 years that water levels were dropping and did nothing. Too many people watering too many golf courses and lawns in the desert.
They built the third water intake at the lowest point in 2011, which means they knew this was coming
Keep that shit green an your opinion to yourself 🙈
It seems to be a human characteristic; "Gotta get my share before it's all gone!" Short-sighted idiocy.
@@fairwinds610 dont blame the consumer blame the outlet that is pumping.
apprently its 80% agriculture.
Thanks for the hard work, and the ending was particularly well done.
The opening scene really hooked me. I stayed wide eyed to the thrilling end. Great cinematography. Bravo.
I moved to vegas in 1979 and remember when the lake when it was at pretty much peak levels. I moved in 1987 but went back every couple of years to visit family . Sad to see what's happened to it over these years
I lived in vegas my whole life and would drive past it every couple years when leaving town and its incredibly sad how much of its gone. Soon there will be nothing left. :(
The greater concern is the impact on the power grid when Hoover dam can no longer generate power.
@@nathanielovaughn2145 i know it has its drawbacks but in a place that has that much sun throughout the year , it really makes you wonder why they havent done more with solar power. Back when I lived there in the early 80s,I lived like 10 or 15 miles south of green valley near what used to be blue diamond hiway with my moms boyfriend that owned 5 acres, and eventually he bought another completely undeveloped 5 acres next to his property. He refused to pay they 50 thousand dollars for the power company to run electricity to his road,even tho the next road over had power ,lol, so he set up some solar panels,got an old hospital generator,and a small wind turbine ,and eventually got 10 semi batteries to store whatever power that was generated that he didnt need. We were never without free electricity. TV show set locators even used his property for a few scenes in the pilot for HARDCASTLE AND McCormick ...near the end of the episode.
Well if I ever come there I'm bringing my tree seeds and saplings to plant around the lake cause that's what it needs then that area will have maples and hard woods
@@nathanielovaughn2145 Well since the Dems and Prog-left are anti-civilization and don't want you to burn Fossil fuels, tallow, wood, coal, natural gas or use nuclear power, just come out during the daylight to hunt and live in a cave like Fred and Barney circa 100,000 BC.
Nature reclaiming itself.
No. It's government mismanagement.
@@tylergriffin333 I can't believe they forgot to order rain. Who we blaming? Trump or Biden?
Nature's power is the most awesome force the planet's ever seen, but you wield it like a kid who's found his dad's gun.
You assume I wield nature and I do it with the same level of safety and responsibility that I've taught my children about gun safety? Thank you.
@@ThomasJones-ij6hv Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way
It's amazing how that camera in space hasn't moved its position in 40 years. I can't even hold my camera phone still for 3 seconds.
Thought same.
That is because the picture was taken at the same longitudinal and longitudinal position in space. You should go back to school!
Don't need any more brainwashing.
@@crazyscott2646 literally was about to comment same thing . Well said
@@crazyscott2646 since 1982? and you know this how?
This video could do with a larger time stamp of the years
That wasn't a "refill", it was the level 1982 and 2022.
This is sad. I remember cliff diving in the 80s and 90s. So many great memories
You try that now you'll be pancaked. Truly sad what greed does.
Man made lake built in a desert is, and has been going dry for more than 40 years... Millions of people moving out there yearly, all knowing this... But somehow, everyone is shocked!
Nevadian here. Most of the water is supplied to larger cities like Las Vegas and close states like California. Nevada gets most of its water form aquifers (or at least where I live).
Right. People see the issue in front of their face but expect everything to always be ok.
@@Ollie09661 Vegas uses less than 4% of the water allotted for the entire state. 4.4 million acre feet of water goes to the idiots in California growing almonds and alfalfa. THAT'S the problem right there.
Gambler's mentality
You couldn’t pay me to live in Vegas or LA
Sam Kinison said it best... “THIS IS A DESERT!!! YOU LIVE IN A DESERT!!! COME HERE! COME HERE... ya see this? This is sand. You know what it’s gonna be in 100 years? ITS STILL GONNA BE SAND!!! NOTHINGS GONNA GROW HERE! NOTHINGS EVER GONNA GROW HERE!!!”
55 million years ago durng the last mass extinction the ocean was hundreds of feet higher then what it is today and the Arctic and the Gulf of Mexico joined in the middle of the country. Co2 levels were in the thousands vs 420 ppm. Seashells have been found in utah and other desert SW states.
Tile Springs in north Las Vegas has tons of coral and shell fossils, they found wooly mammoth tusk there as well from last ice age.
@@LK-pc4sq those fossil finds are interesting
They did a experiment where they dumped tons and tons of orange peels in the desert around 20 years later it turned into a rain forest!!! You can always turn the desert into something else!!!
@@LK-pc4sq You really believe that crap?? The earth is young, it's exactly as old as the Bible says that it is around 6 thousand years old!! If the entire earth was made from carbon 14 it would completely disappear in less than a million years so why do we still have carbon 14 in everything if the earth is billions of years old??? There's plenty more proofs that the earth is young, check out the site, Young Earth Creation on KZhead and see all the evidence for yourself!!! There's absolutely zero proof that the earth is old!! Also their dating methods don't work at all because they don't have any idea what conditions were like in the past!!!
The silt transport right of screen is incredible!
Turns out the river that carved out the Grand Canyon has a lot of silt. Who would'a thought?
Many people from cali moving to Arizona and Nevada and I don’t blame them but the new build houses popping up all over these two valleys are mind blowing. Good for these two states but I’m sure this will only make it worse for this exact situation.
California gets more of that water then both states combined.
@@cheech460 80% of that water is for agriculture
@@thorstenweimar1190 yes because cutting the water to the agriculture feeding the overpopulated area is the solution. Yes agriculture used 80% of the water but overpopulated city's causes 90% of the agriculture demand.
@@thorstenweimar1190 it might be and feeds millions of Americans also gives non Americans jobs.
@@cheech460 You’re right! The water issue in the American SouthWest is very complicated and complex. There is great literature out there. Wallace Stegener warned in his book „Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West“ that the climate west of the 100th Meridian is not made for a sustainable human settlement. That was 70-80 years ago. „Cadillac Desert“ from Marc Reisner or „The Dreamt Land“ from Mark Arrax are great books regarding that topic. Can we blame Federal government and the railroad company’s in the 19th century, who pushed to settle the West/Southwest? Can we blame the Gold Rush in Colorado and California? Regarding California, I guess for the turning of a semi desert landscape into an oasis of lawns and palm trees, we can blame the LA Chamber of Commerce. After LA stole the Ownes River, the Chamber advertised LA as the „only Mediterranean Climate and Paradise“ in America. They send pictures of beautifully green parks with lawns , Palm Trees and Swimming Pools around the US. That was the blueprint for the „Southern California“ landscape we have in our heads. Today, in LA County around 250,000 swimming pools exist! But it’s not only California alone, a lot of Metropolitan Areas in the American Southwest grew too fast despite the limited water. Maybe California should build Desalination Plants along its beaches (and power plants next to them to feed them). Big agriculture is another big issue, especially with Asian Hedgefonts owning a lot of the big nuts production in Central Valley, they don’t care about the environment at all. And they sell their crops around the world. And when they get water restrictions, they dig deeper and deeper until the Aquifer is completely dry…another problem is the century old water rights. There are a few people in Central Valley, who are in control of most of the water. They even sell it to cities. It’s completely crazy… I live in California since 2019, but I turned the lawn into artificial grass and turned off the automatic irrigation. For around 7 months I don’t have to water the garden at all…and I don’t have a swimming pool;-). Cheers
Right now, I'm more upset about KZhead's video PAUSE interface covering up the year caption at the top right with a dark gradient than Lake Mead drying up.
visible on my screen.
People also need to understand that Lake Meade is like a V shaped glass. The top 1/4 of that glass is about 1/2 of the volume. Lake Meade is the same way, once it gets past a certain point, the water appears to be getting lower quicker because of the shape of the river basin at the bottom of the lake even if the rate stays the same. The problem is, by that time, it's already too late to try and save it, the damage is already done. It is highly probable Lake Meade will never be full again, at least not in this generation., and how long do you think a government owned dam will sit not producing power but still requires millions in up keep and maintenance a year? Yeah, you know how that works. Say goodbye.
We'd have to lift our heads out of the sand to see that.
Not to mention in the V shape Scope. Evaporation escalation increases
It's interesting that people blame drought conditions on what's happening here. It's the desert; drought conditions are *why* it's a desert. Get rid of golf courses and green lawns and set punitive rates on water to encourage conservation. That will go a long way.
The majority of golf courses are irrigated with recycled water. In fact many courses have reduced grass area to natural vegetation. Do some home work
@@joegotz1971 don't be so obtuse. Golf courses are a prime example of egregious and wasteful land and water use. Why don't you do your homework.
@@jimmyjuju I suppose I should stay home and read a book. What about football, soccer & baseball fields, and the biggest user of water is farming. You probably suck at golf.
@@joegotz1971 Recycled or not the water has to come from somewhere in the first place. Watering grass so it just evaporates is not the smartest use of it.
@@vincemajestyk9497 actually, the warm moist air would typically meet the cooler damp air over the rocky mountains causing it to rain. There is not as much moisture in the air to cause enough precipitation since we have slowed the river through thr mountains and reduced its overall ability to evaporate over a large area. Reduce agriculture in California (that's where 80% of the water goes) for a period, there's not much that grows there that can't be grown elsewhere. Rain will come again
Fun fact: at the beginning of the video, you see a small island near the center of the photo near the edge of the lake. The island disappears as time goes on. That ‘island’ is where the pumps are that pull water out of the lake for Las Vegas to use.
Good. Hope it dries out completely
dumping water out the hoover dam at record rates could never back fire no one could of ever seen this coming
I know! Shocking, just shocking, that a natural event like this, could...just happen! Mother Nature, is...such a fickle bitch!
Who are you talking to Chris, 100% of the Colorado River is used before it ever reaches the sea, and zero water is "dumped out the hoover dam" I bet you stay in the basement during 2020, good idea.
It’s unbelievable how at 0:37, the ENTIRE extreme right side of the lake completely disappears.
WoW…..I didn’t even catch that
Do you know what body of water that was? Is it part of Lake Mead or simply another smaller body that feeds Lake Mead?
@@richardwheeler3768 It's part of the "grand wash bay" that flows into the Colorado river. It appears that it used to hold water at a shallow level for quite some time but is now dry unless it has recently rained.
Thanks for the heads up. Totally missed it. Mind blown.
Yeah that's incredible. That whole area probably was very shallow.
So, the quality of the image hasn’t changed since ‘82?
Not that's detectable from a 1080p KZhead video. That's only about 2 megapixels. Satellite cameras were probably a lot higher res than that back in 1982.
build a giant city in the middle of the desert and watch it drain a lake as the city grows exponentially. Sounds about right.
WOW!
Maybe we should be running desalination plants pumping water into the lakes so we can feed our agriculture!
If the water price from Lake Mead was set by the market, that may become economically viable for some areas of CA.
@@tylergriffin333 this is what they do in the middle east! I don't understand why we aren't doing it here. There is probably some protected shrimp that might get sucked up in the pumps 😂
The eye in the sky watches motionless for 40 years straight without blinking.
How many houses have been built since 93? Population increase, more swimming pools and golf courses, car washes
I moved to Vegas in 84, Mead was beautiful back then, the spillway were still working and boating and skiing was a pleasure....now it's a depressing mudhole!!
I thought this video would have been a lot worse looking after hearing everyone freaking out about Lake Mead drying up. It doesn't look that bad from this time lapse.
Try watching again from 1:19. They compress the change between the before and after to a couple of seconds so you can see it much better. The lake goes down to half its original size.
This is by far the scariest thing I've ever seen
Huh hard to imagine why when it takes 1 gallon of water to grow a single almond, and up to 225 almonds to make a gallon of almond milk
AlmondMilk is disgusting anyways
I like it...but don't like it enough to dry up a super large lake! It wouldn't surprise me if some areas getting water illegally or other countries. I heard Saudi Arabia grows maze I think...an it takes A TON OF WATER. It's illegal in S.A. to grow maze due to the water amt. So, America allows other countries to come in an take OUR WATER for OUR FUTURE for Millions. All abt money. Cali and Ariz and Utah...need an attitude adjustment. OUR CITIZENS COME FIRST!!
Look up Saudi Arabia buying land in these area fr Ariz an you'll see for yourself.
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Almonds are grown in the Central Valley of California. Colorado River water feeds the cities and towns of Southern Califoria along with agriculture primarily in the Imperial and Coachella valleys. 80% of all the water use in California is for agriculture. The Central Valley supplies the majority of fruits and nuts to the US. Central Valley water supplies come from dozens of dams and aqueducts constructed all along the western flank of the Sierra Nevada. BTW- 40% of all the moisture that falls in California falls into 5 river drainage along the northwestern coast of California. These rivers are mostly preserved under the Wild and Scenic River Act and cannot be developed. I love almonds!
Yeah, Hetch Hetchy
A very important point! No new sources of water has been developed in California for decades, despite the enormous increase in demand! Instead, water resources, like electricity, have increasingly been out sourced, out of State!
Sometimes you feel like a nut , sometimes you don't.
And then, on top of that, Gruesome Newsom is letting most of the melt water from the Sierra Mountains run through those 5 rivers right into the ocean w/o letting the farmers have it or refreshing the aquafer in the Central Valley...for a bunch of bait fish (smelt)
@@jshound1508 look at me. I can make up silly names like I’m in 1st grade.
How's that glacier melt going?
I never saw this coming that’s for sure.
How much water to clean solar panels daily, how much water diverted to so cal?
Looks good, no change, any one else see any huge change.
Dammmmmn!! That is very alarming!
The year I was born till now. I remember going to Lake Mead as a child with the family in the 80s and 90s. Good times. Last time I went was back in the mid 2000s. How different it looks now with so much water gone.
If the geoengineers wanted to, they could fill this lake back up in a week.
I'd like to know how much flowed into and out of the lake on a yearly basis since 1982 or earlier. If outflow is more year to year because of more people moving into the area then the lake most likely will never fill again.
I think Las Vegas can grow if we make a pipeline to the ocean 1 state away. The salt would be tolerable
@@parkdog7571 Sea water corrodes faster. And there would need to be 37 pumping stations to raise the water over the mountains. At least in the desert you have plenty of space to dump the salt water waste from the cleaning process. But there would still be a medium environmental impact to that 780 square miles of desert after 12 years.
@@Mac_Omegaly I have a 300 gallon saltwater aquarium with Stingrays and Epaulette Walking Carpet Sharks, the salt corrosion isn’t that bad the animals need it. Plus all that desert used to be under the ocean in the first place millenniums ago. The pipeline could follow the train tracks from Cali to Las Vegas for the pumping stations runnin off solar. We’d be just like Salt Lake City Utah for unlimited growth.
@@Mac_Omegaly Bless your heart you counted the fantasy pumping stations.
@@TheHopetown While I don't have the exact reference, The pump number was quoted in another video I watched about a month ago. If I remember it was from an accual proposal for this very idea. And it's an easy number to remember for personal reasons. The proposal was obviously dismissed, and now that the cost to do this same thing has increased with Inflation, it's not looking like this would solve the problem any time soon. It would eventually become something that could be a long term solution.
not bad, now we only need a display of the years with it, to see when the lake did raise a little in between
Look in the upper right corner.
That is insane.
I think it would only take about 30-40 tankers of melting glacier water or melted icebergs to fill Lake Mead. Do we have some spare tankers? Or maybe just park the tankers and pump the water wherever it need to go.
That must have been a HUGE parachute the photographer was wearing.
🤣
When the people in the desert get real thirsty and the power goes out.maybe they will see that moving to the desert wasn't a good idea.
And Then the Teeming Hordes burst from the Desert into Your Local Neck of the Woods.
To quote the renowned philosopher and humorist Sam Kinison "YOU LIVE IN A F'ING DESERT!!"
é claro que ele alterna a partir do período seco e completo, entramos na estação seca e logo estaremos na íntegra novamente. Com a gama de anos entra-se um período de super seco e super cheio... Não sei do que se trata todo o alarme. of course it alternates from the dry and full period, we enter the dry season and soon we will be in full again. With the range of years you enter a period of super dry and super full... I don't know what the whole alarm is about.
Now there's the internet, the alarmist think there's something sinister going on, but you're right, it's a cycle of years that droughts happen, plus there's way too many people in the southwest to support that many people, along with growing water hungry crops to boot.
I also believe that the earth goes through a variety of cycles but on a much much larger scale. Like for instance, I believe the earth gets a bit warmer for a few hundred years are maybe a few thousand years and then the opposite, etc...
The Raiders built that fancy new stadium and to make sure they had enough water pressure in the building they simultaneously flushed all the toilets.
The lake is still being fed with tons of water, if they figure out another way to get the water in California and just take less from the lake it can easily refill, it's not like the Colorado River is dried up
How recent was that sudden rise at 1:19? That looked promising.
It’s not a rise. They just replayed the whole video again from the beginning but shortened it to a few seconds so the before/after was much more visible.
I just don't understand how a lake can go dry like this. Over the last 3 years I've been worried about lake levels going up. I'm in Michigan and 15 years ago they went down. But now because of the terrible cold weather we get and snow the lakes are super high.
Yep....by all means, keep building there.
Okay thanks
boy does time fly by
Dubai is using drones and electricity to make it rain. Google or KZhead it.
The US Government has methods for “cloud seeding”. My question is , why aren’t they using that method for drought areas? My guess is, dried up lake beds are perfect locations for lithium mines.
So your telling me no one noticed to the right the road that was made to cross cut off water supply ?
So when will it go dry and whats folks going to do when it does?
Still looks to be holding quite a bit of water.
What an alien looking Lake I thought to myself. Like us kids playing in sand at the Beach carving out a ditch and filling it with bucket of Lake water. Then after some careless adult inadvertently caved in a portion. We thought dam, what a great idea. Yet it was still a river not a lake, even though we no longer had to add so much water to keep it's level up.
82/83 El Nino years and huge population growth since
Wondering do you have the lake level before and after 911? I believe alot of water was let out on purpose and also I believe it was keep low for the building of the 3rd intake which it's located in the main channel of the Colorado River making it easier for divers to work and since then it has never returned 🤔
What would 9/11 have anything to do with the level of water in the lake? Just wondering on this take.
People talk about the city in the desert draining the lake. There's a lot more to it than water usage. Those electric generators require constant water flow, whether the water is used or not. If the dam wasn't the largest electricity generator in three states, there would be abundant water available. But, in summer, when electricity is at peak use, water is used by millions of gallons, when there is nearly zero replenishment. This lake going dry is a prime example of mismanagement, as usual.
Lake Powell has been damned up so no water is flowing to Lake Mead at this time. Those in power made this decision. I’ve read from the water district that this would remain for 2 1/2 years? Is there enough water in Lake Mead to last that long? Vegas is not using the lions share of the water.
Well....... Lake Mead was at it's highest in early 80s
It doesn't look as bad as in person that's for sure
Doesn't? People who live around it have been documenting the drop and it's staggering
@@kas7145 I was saying that satellite view doesn't look as bad as in person... I know it's staggering actually it's disturbing to me. I was there in the mid 80's and just made a trip there to see the difference.
@@Kevin-zh8bj It's a desert, this was predicted, it isn't s surprise.
It seems like it goes through cycles more than anything .
Of course ; season
It looks like it goes up and down every 10 years.
There are bore holes being uncovered near the waters edge today.
I hate to admit this, but I kind enjoy seeing what each day brings as the water draws down.
Are you sure those are not bung holes.🤣
@@thomastessin1663 for the cornholio
Are you saying it’s from old mining sites or new proposed mining on Lake Mead?
The little white dot bottom middle was a yacht being pulled out of the mud.
Yup
Notice how in the time lapse there is no sign of rain clouds over lake Mead. That's kinda strange.
I removed the images with to much cloud coverage since it's just a white picture
Lake Mead's water level has been dropping since the 70s the whole area has been losing water southern Utah places like Duck Creek. Barker's Green Va
The 70s!? Not true. The spill way was activated in 1983 for the first time since the 40s.
@@californiamade5608 yah, but what you're not taking into account is this is a lagging indicator. The population limit for the area was hit back in the 70's and shouldn't have expanded any further since the water infrastructure can't handle it....but state officials in those areas keep inviting people to pack themselves in. It's very irresponsible of land management....just like in CA, with their horrible management of their forests. government in the SW has been a failure on these things and I see so many "solutions" from people that don't understand physics. These lakes are at least a 1/2 mile, or more, higher than the other places they want to take it from. So many bad decisions compiling on each other here.
The 70's or early 80's if you're a drama queen it doesn't matter. How long has it been a desert?
@@zarroth The problem is the agriculture not the population. Even if everyone in arizona, nevada and southern california stopped using water completely there would still not be enough water flowing in the colorado river for the agricultural industry of those 3 states.
@@bkdarkness Nevada has no agriculture industry.
Look how it is fuller sometimes and not other times
More people, more businesses, population growth, immigration to the land of riches and prosperity. The vanes aren't what they used to be. Seems like time to start again. Prayers for water for electricity for drinking. Stay thirsty my friends.
It’s a man made lake with the population growth and a long drought and more casino being build in the past 40 years I’m not surprised
Would have been nice to have a year counter up in the top corner and maybe slow down the vid for actual analysis...plus in 2020 it was pretty full...
I bet you tell your boyfriend to slow the stroke down too.
it's there, top right. If it's too fast for you, slow it down, you have the option of viewing speeds, all the way from .25 to 2.00. If you want to do frame by frame, use the comma and period keys.
Man made the lake and man can drain it intentionally to create fear
No way the water rises and lowers in cycles, who would have thought that
Sounds like we have growing cities
Everyone has to live in the desert with a backyard pool bro
DING DING DING and the 70% used for crops oh the humanity. I love how everyone likes to act mad or ashamed like dog dang it we humans need water and I feel so guilty. LOL Can't wait for the floods and the inverse, we are so weak as a society. How many of you know how to start a fire?
I looks exactly the same
Considering the climate that's really not that bad.. it looks like human development was the main cause of water depletion
What ought to do now, while we can, is to roll back some of the silting that has occurred and extend the life of the reservoir.
Do one from creation of the damn…
Great time-lapse without the bulls**t commentary news evaluation ....
Why is CA getting 58% of the water?
Wish it had the dates while the pics are going through
Top right corner.
@@mkvv5687 oh cool, thanks👍
Just rose 2.5 feet , only 22 more to go can someone please get to rain dancing and singing Johnny Cash
Look on any map of the world or go on a road trip and you will see dry lakes everywhere. Its been happening since the beginning of time.
so sad the Dying of Watery Lakes
The climate is always changing and is highly cyclical; Mead will fill up again in the future.
who would of thought that a city n the desert would run out of water
i would think they wouldn't want gas powered boats in that little amount of water. It must be getting pretty rank.
Geoengineered weather at its finest.
Err, no
Someone left the water running in their hotel room.
Kinda looks like the planet is living and breathing, huh?!
Anyone else see the displeased alien face in the load right lol?!
If you watch this at .25speed it actually didn't go straight from full to empty. It was going up and down. It's it possible when the government and people in charge want something that they make things bad or look bad?
You're seeing seasonal variation. The lakes (Lake Meade and Lake Powell) are filling up during the Spring when the snows of Colorado are melting. The rest of the year water levels are dropping. How fast depends on demand, rain, and evaporation.
"ok but i need my almonds and golf courses"
I run my golf cart on almond milk.