When it comes to Lake Mead’s water levels, even the biggest storms that hit Las Vegas aren’t much of a factor.
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The National Park Service announced that Mike Gauthier, who has been Lake Mead’s acting superintendent since December, will take the permanent reins next month.
Drinking recycled sewage water is gaining steam across the West as cities grapple with the effects of more than two decades of drought that has dwindled water supplies from the Colorado River.
The tropical storm brought nearly a monsoon season’s worth of precipitation in just a few days. But that heavy rainfall likely had little effect on Lake Mead’s water levels.
Despite a wet winter that swelled the Colorado River’s reservoirs this year, Lake Mead will head into 2024 under a federal water shortage for a third consecutive year.
Not even Las Vegas’ hottest month on record could knock Lake Mead’s timely rise off course.
Rising temperatures have sapped more than 10 trillion gallons of water from the Colorado River over the last two decades, a recent study shows.
Las Vegas kicked off this year using far less water than previous years. But a dry outlook for the rest of summer could put a dent in those water use reductions.
A projected overdemand for groundwater will limit growth along the edges of the metro Phoenix area, but the situation in Las Vegas is different.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority is planning to release high amounts of water into the wash over a three-day period.
A torrent of water was released from Glen Canyon Dam last month as a way of shoring up the sandbars and beaches along the Colorado River.
After dropping more than 50 feet since 2000, latest forecasts show Lake Mead rising by roughly 22 feet by the end of the year.
The U.S. Drought Monitor says storms dropped so much water this winter that less than one-quarter of Nevada remains in drought.
The two proposals show that “the tools available to the federal government are very blunt,” said John Entsminger, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority.
Since the 1980s, Southern Nevada has been banking its unused Colorado River water, storing hundreds of billions of gallons away underground and in Lake Mead.
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