Lake Mead Hits Historic Low as Colorado River Crisis Deepens

Millions of residents and agricultural operations across the Southwest face potential water supply disruptions and economic impacts from reduced Colorado River allocations.

Lake Mead, the great reservoir that has underwritten life across the American Southwest for nearly a century, has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded — a moment that is less a crisis of water than a reckoning with the distance between what was promised and what the natural world can now provide. The Colorado River, diminished by two decades of drought and a warming climate that steals moisture before it can be stored, can no longer honor the agreements made in its name. Seven states, forty million people, and the agricultural heart of a continent now face the slow, difficult work of reima

Lake Mead Hits Historic Low as Colorado River Crisis Deepens

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