Photos: Hoover Dam's massive reservoir hits record low, with no end to drought in sight

[Justice matters.]

Source: Reuters, Nexstar Media Wire

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The drought that has brought Lake Mead low has gripped California, the Pacific Northwest, the Great Basin spanning Nevada, Oregon and Utah, plus the southwestern states of Arizona and New Mexico and even part of the Northern Plains.

Farmers are abandoning crops, Nevada is banning the watering of about one-third of the lawn in the Las Vegas area, and the governor of Utah is literally asking people to pray for rain.

Firefighters are facing worsening conditions this summer – after nearly 10,000 fires in California alone during the last wildfire season burned 4.2 million acres (1.7 million hectares), an area nearly as large as Kuwait.

Droughts are a recurring natural hazard but made worse recently by an accumulation of extremely dry years for most of this century. Scientists say human-influenced climate change has exacerbated the situation.

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[zuul]

1. Those photos . . . holy sh*t!

[Anon-C]

2. Hell of a drought!

[Binkie The Clown]

3. Several years ago I read that Las Vegas would be among the first U.S. cities...

...to be completely abandoned as unlivable.

Looks like we are getting one step closer to that inevitable fate.

[Brainfodder]

4. Nope

I live in LV and I have not been told to watch water consumption at all, other than watering days.

Should have been by now, if that dire.

If Hoover Dam breaks, it does not pour into THE VALLEY, either.

[Binkie The Clown]

5. Inevitable doesn't mean this year, or even this decade. It just mean eventually.

If not in your lifetime, then in your grandchildren's lifetime. But in the long run Las Vegas cannot survive global warming. Any more than can Los Angeles.

[Brainfodder]

8. That was a full reaction to the OP and what you said, I am well aware, but we are baking at 116F ATM

[roamer65]

6. ..

Very soon, this would not be able to happen.

Almost unimaginable.

[roamer65]

7. Central America, Mexico and the US southwest will be the first to fry.

Imagine the climate exodus when it kicks into high gear.

It’s about 10-20 years out.

The Great Lakes and Northeastern US states should start planning for it, NOW.

Politically and border wise.

[Maxheader]

9. Desalination plants...

They'd better get busy building them...

[hunter]

10. That takes a huge amount of energy, first to desalinate the water...

... and then to pump it over three hundred miles and 2,000 feet uphill to Las Vegas.

Doing that with fossil fuels would be insane, since fossil fuels caused the problem and are making it worse.

[The Jungle 1]

11. The entire republican party STILL rejects climate change!!!!