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7 lakes and rivers that are drying up: Lake Mead
7 lakes and rivers that are drying up
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Jul 31 2011 at 5:24 PM
Fascinating....2 of the "drying up" lakes are man made and are not natural at all and the fact that they exist at all is causing the lone river on this list to dry up.
DAVID
Jul 30 2011 at 4:56 PM
tHINGS THEY ARE A'CHANGIN'....take a look at Devil's Lake, ND...it's been rising since mid 90's with no place to go...need a pipeline to Ft Worth so they can waste the water and Devil's Lake(the town) can pay for the flood...no, nothing makes sense, cents...Times they are a'changin'....water and bullets....good luck......
S-2 type
Jul 30 2011 at 8:08 AM
When i was a kid in Northern California (1960's) I watch Shasta lake
drop more than 200 feet each summer. All this water was sent to
Southern California, sound like the same old store. The water is not
for the population of Southern California, it for all the big commerical
truck farms using all the land to grow profit.
Joe L
Jul 29 2011 at 5:39 PM
The western US lakes shown are not drying up. They are controled by the Corps of Engineers. More water is being drained down stream by opening the flood gates. This last few years have been very wet.
Guest
Jul 29 2011 at 5:55 PM
you are dead wrong. i live in las vegas and lake mead is down so much there's a huge white "bathtub ring" around the perimeter of the lake. it's sad.
Beth
Jul 29 2011 at 4:00 PM
Why are most of them from the US? Do we wreak more havoc on our natural resources, or are they just the most obvious ones aside from Lake Chad and the Aral Sea?
SteveK
Jul 30 2011 at 9:31 AM
That's just who YOU are paying attention to. India and Pakistan have the same troubles. China's Northern desert is the same problem. Look at Lake Victoria, or Lake Jipe. The abuse of the waters is worldwide. The bulk of the abuse is by us Humans. But Typha and water hyacinth and Phragmites are just as greedy and obsessive as we humans, and they don't even notice the costs. In the USA, cattail sloughs that should be lakes do not replenish the ground water that is needed.
Bill
Jul 29 2011 at 12:54 PM
Could you have at least put a caption under these pics to tell us what body of water we are looking at?
Lake Mead
In slightly longer than a decade, Nevada's Lake Mead — which sits down river from Lake Powell on the Colorado River — has seen its total volume drop by more than 60 percent. Persistant drought and increased demand have wreaked havoc on water levels, sometimes draining three feet of depth in a month. Now, the lake is listed at about 1,100 feet above sea level, a foot below the previous all-time low set in 1937. With demand not letting up and climate change warming things up, it doesn't look good for Lake Mead. Water managers have the option of releasing water from Lake Powell to raise Lake Mead, but that doesn't solve the problem of not having enough water in the system in the first place.
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