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NASA images show Lake Mead’s water level at a record low
Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the U.S has dried up to its lowest ever level according to new NASA images
NASA has released new pictures showing the withering state of Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the U.S which is now at a record low.
Images from 2000 and 2021 compared to 2022 show how dramatically low the water levels are, now at just 27 per cent capacity.
The lake typically supplies water to roughly 25 million people across America’s west, but now it is at its lowest levels since it was first filled in 1937.
Today the lake looks like more of a graveyard rather than a water supply, with two skeletons being revealed amid the drought.
Dead and dried up fish also stick up in the cracks of the dried lake.
And even a whole power boat stands up right, solidified into dry mud, almost like a tomb stone.
The managing director of the NASA Earth Observatory, has described the phenomenon as “a stark illustration of climate change.”