Lake Mead

Its water supply is tied to nearby Lake Mead which is down 75 feet since 2000.

CNN Transcript May 27, 2004 2004

However, the chances of a full depletion of Colorado River reservoirs such as Lake Mead and Lake Powell and water supplies is less than 10 percent even under the worst scenarios, according to the research.

Jacksonville Business News - Local Jacksonville News | Jacksonville Business Journal 2009

If those investments were concentrated in the western United States, we would lessen our Lake Mead threat as well as our sturgeon-caviar threat.

Jigar Shah: $39 Billion, Just the Tip of the $20 Trillion Oil Iceberg Jigar Shah 2011

Stark evidence of an increasingly dry West can be seen in the "bathtub rings" around the West's two largest reservoirs, Lake Powell and Lake Mead, left half-full by an 11-year drought in the Colorado River basin, the source of water for at least 30 million people.

Stacy Tellinghuisen: Clean Energy Offers Solution to Western Water Woes Stacy Tellinghuisen 2011

Further, there are continuing reports that the Colorado River is at low levels and Lake Mead continues to become shallower.

Jigar Shah: $39 Billion, Just the Tip of the $20 Trillion Oil Iceberg Jigar Shah 2011

Stark evidence of an increasingly dry West can be seen in the "bathtub rings" around the West's two largest reservoirs, Lake Powell and Lake Mead, left half-full by an 11-year drought in the Colorado River basin, the source of water for at least 30 million people.

Stacy Tellinghuisen: Clean Energy Offers Solution to Western Water Woes Stacy Tellinghuisen 2011

Mr. Paul wants to exempt tips from taxes so the bouncers, blackjack dealers and hotel workers from Lake Mead to Winnemucca have more money to spend on house payments, retirement savings and college funds.

Texan Works for Tips in Sin City Patrick O'Connor 2012

Stark evidence of an increasingly dry West can be seen in the "bathtub rings" around the West's two largest reservoirs, Lake Powell and Lake Mead, left half-full by an 11-year drought in the Colorado River basin, the source of water for at least 30 million people.

Stacy Tellinghuisen: Clean Energy Offers Solution to Western Water Woes Stacy Tellinghuisen 2011

Thus a hydroelectric dam such as Hoover must back up a 250-square-mile reservoir Lake Mead in order to generate the same electricity produced by a reactor on one square mile.

Why I Still Support Nuclear Power, Even After Fukushima William Tucker 2011

Stark evidence of an increasingly dry West can be seen in the "bathtub rings" around the West's two largest reservoirs, Lake Powell and Lake Mead, left half-full by an 11-year drought in the Colorado River basin, the source of water for at least 30 million people.

Stacy Tellinghuisen: Clean Energy Offers Solution to Western Water Woes Stacy Tellinghuisen 2011