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Losses in Lake Mead

The water within a large, key reservoir in the southwestern United States has fallen to levels not seen since the 1930s.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and Lake Mead elevation data from the Bureau of Reclamation. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published August 18, 2015
Data acquired July 6, 2000 - July 24, 2015

Sources:
Landsat 7 > ETM+
Landsat 8 > OLI