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The Latest Breaking News from Lake Mead

‘We Can’t Be Living in an Economy of 40 Million People This Close to the Edge.’

Lake Mead, a key water source for California and six other states, is close to drying up. Water policy expert Felicia Marcus says dramatic action is needed on conservation, recycling and efficiency.

Capital & Main

EXPLAINER: What might Colorado River cuts mean for states?

The Biden administration floated two ideas this week for how Western states and Native American tribes could reduce their water use from the dwindling Colorado River

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US presents proposals for major water cuts on Colorado River

LOS ANGELES — The federal government on Tuesday laid out two options for preventing the Colorado River’s depleted reservoirs from falling to critically low levels, saying it could either impose cuts across the Southwest by following the water-rights priority system or by using an across-the-board percentage.

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Drought-ravaged Colorado River gets relief from snow. But long-term water crisis remains

LOS ANGELES — Four months ago, the outlook for the Colorado River was so dire that federal projections showed imminent risks of reservoirs dropping to dangerously low levels.

Los Angeles Times

Tribe, US officials reach deal to save Colorado River water

A Native American tribe in Arizona has reached a deal with the U.S. government not to use some of its Colorado River water rights in return for $150 million and funding for a pipeline project

The Independent UK

Human remains found in Lake Mead identified as man who drowned almost 50 years ago

Discovery is at least sixth find of human remains in recreational areas of reservoir in last year

The Independent UK

Human remains revealed by shrinking Lake Mead identified half a century on

Coroners in Las Vegas say DNA analysis shows bone belonged to Donald Smith, 39, who drowned in 1974

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7 facts to know about Lake Mead

LAS VEGAS — Among the sunken ships and undiscovered bodies at Lake Mead lies a boatload of rich history at one of the West's most popular outdoor attractions. Lake Mead National Recreation Area is America’s first and largest recreation area, offering swimming, boating, hiking, cycling, camping and fishing.

Tribune News Service

Biggest water users could face restrictions, Nevada agency says

A proposal that would give Southern Nevada water managers the ability to limit residential water use would only affect the top 20% of users in the Las Vegas Valley, representatives from the Southern Nevada Water Authority told state lawmakers Monday.

Tribune News Service

States struggle to find Colorado River cuts as Lake Mead shrinks

LAS VEGAS — Getting states to agree to use less water is hard. Doing so in a matter of months is near impossible.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: California and its neighbors are at an impasse over the Colorado River. Here’s a way forward

California and the other Colorado River Basin states are at odds over how to halt the precipitous decline of Lake Mead. The impasse reflects a century of failure to take a basic step left undone by the original Colorado River Compact.

Los Angeles Times

‘A nice sign’: Big Rockies snowpack may boost Lake Mead

LAS VEGAS — It’s not even March yet, but the mountains that feed the Colorado River already have seen more snow this winter than they normally would through an entire snow season.

Tribune News Service

As the Colorado River shrinks, federal officials consider overhauling Glen Canyon Dam

LOS ANGELES — The desiccation of the Colorado River has left Lake Powell, the country’s second-largest reservoir, at just 23% of capacity, its lowest level since it was filled in the 1960s.

Los Angeles Times

California releases its own plan for Colorado River cuts

California has released a plan outlining how it thinks states should reduce their reliance on the Colorado River

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Al Jazeera

US states propose Colorado River cuts, California lone holdout

Authorities in US West are in talks to cut water use as Colorado River faces historically low levels amid drought.

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Lake Mead’s decline may slow, thanks to winter’s wet start

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Lake Mead’s decline may slow, thanks to winter’s wet start

LAS VEGAS — Hefty snowfalls from a series of atmospheric rivers have brought a slightly rosier outlook for the beleaguered Colorado River.

Daily Mirror

Plane found at bottom of lake after pilots were forced to make emergency landing

Pilots Chad Rodgers and Charles Wood were flying a single-engine Cessna on the night of October 1 when they had to make an emergency crash landing in Lake Mead, Nevada, US

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Axios

Drought, floods, wildfires: Climate change upends archaeology

Artifacts are being jostled or buried — or emerging as extreme drought causes water levels in rivers and lakes to fall due to extreme drought.

Los Angeles Times

Federal officials say urgent action needed to protect shrinking Colorado River reservoirs

LAS VEGAS — With Colorado River reservoirs nearing dangerously low levels, the federal government has given basin states a Jan. 31 deadline to negotiate major water cuts and stave off a possible collapse in supplies.

The Independent UK

Colorado River water users convening amid crisis concerns

Living with less water in the U.S. Southwest is the focus this week for a conference in Las Vegas about the drought-stricken and overpromised Colorado River

Tribune News Service

Hundreds turn out to defend Lake Mead boating

BOULDER CITY, Nevada — Max Convis never imagined a day when park officials would even be considering the option of restricting boating access to Lake Mead, a reservoir he has been boating on for half a century.

The Independent UK

New US plan could lead to federal action on Colorado River

The Interior Department announced Friday that it will consider revising a set of guidelines for operating two major dams on the Colorado River

The Guardian - US

Sixth set of human remains found in vanishing Lake Mead

A second world war-era boat, half emerged B-29 plane and five other bodies have so far been found in the receding waters

The Independent UK

Divers find bone believed to be human at receding Lake Mead

Divers have found more human remains at drought-stricken Lake Mead near Las Vegas

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