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Lake Mead Still Shrinking

Ongoing drought and diminished snowpack in the Rockies have combined with increasing demands downstream to cause the great reservoir to drop to historically low levels.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Michael Carlowicz.

Published August 1, 2014
Data acquired July 21, 2014

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI