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The Latest Breaking News from Lake Mead

Do you recognize these men spotted pulling down boulders on a popular Lake Mead hiking trail?

A video of the incident has been sent to the NPS for investigation

Advnture

Last year's most popular (and most dangerous) US National Parks revealed

Visits to NPS-maintained sites were almost back to pre-pandemic levels last year

Advnture

Colorado River has lost 10tn gallons of water since 2000 due to climate crisis

Volume of water lost equal to Lake Mead, US’s largest reservoir, or enough water to fill around 15bn Olympic-sized pools, study finds

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‘A portion of paradise’: how the drought is bringing a lost US canyon back to life

Record dryness has restored an ecosystem under Lake Powell, the country’s second-largest reservoir

The Guardian - US

Over half of the world's largest lakes and reservoirs are losing water

The amount lost in the last 30 years is equivalent to 17 Lake Meads — the largest reservoir in the U.S.

LiveScience

Explainer: What does the latest Colorado River proposal mean for California, Arizona, Nevada?

Facing the future with a dwindling Colorado River supply and intense pressure from the federal government, Arizona, California and Nevada have offered a plan to cut their water use significantly

The Independent UK

Breakthrough Colorado River deal reached, bringing big water cuts for three years

LOS ANGELES — The seven states that depend on the Colorado River announced Monday that they have reached an agreement on cutting water use from the river over the next three years to prevent reservoirs from falling to critically low levels.

Los Angeles Times

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Remains found in Lake Mead identified as Las Vegas man missing for 25 years

Officials named remains as those of Claude Russell Pensinger, who disappeared on fishing trip in 1998

The Guardian - US

A fisherman went missing in 1998. Now his remains at Lake Mead have been identified

Las Vegas resident Claude Russell Pensinger disappeared while fishing in the reservoir. His skeletal remains were one of several sets discovered last year as water levels dropped in a drought.

WEKU

‘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

The Independent UK

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.

Los Angeles Times

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

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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 Guardian - US

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

Tribune News Service

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.

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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.

Los Angeles Times

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.

Tribune News Service

‘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.

Los Angeles Times

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.

The Independent UK

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

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.

Tribune News Service

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