#lakemead — Public Fediverse posts
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https://www.europesays.com/news/19169/ Rainstorm, fierce winds strike California: What’s expected for SoCal #average #California #ColoradoRiver #Headlines #inch #LakeMead #LakePowell #LosAngelesTimes #MajorReservoir #mph #NationalWeatherServiceOffice #News #rain #SierraNevada #snow #storm #TopStories #WaterYear
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Colorado’s drought may be severe and prolonged (Opinion)
We are two and a half decades into the Southwest’s most severe drought of the last 1,200 years,…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #climatechange #Colorado #ColoradoRiver #coloradoriverbasin #Drought #Engineering #gunnisoncounty #LakeMead #LakePowell #latestheadlines #opinion #opinioncolumnists #Science #snowpack #spring #temperature #writersontherange
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Colorado’s drought may be severe and prolonged (Opinion)
We are two and a half decades into the Southwest’s most severe drought of the last 1,200 years,…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #climatechange #Colorado #ColoradoRiver #coloradoriverbasin #Drought #Engineering #gunnisoncounty #LakeMead #LakePowell #latestheadlines #opinion #opinioncolumnists #Science #snowpack #spring #temperature #writersontherange
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Battle Over Colorado River Water Ends In A Draw
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https://cleantechnica.com/2026/02/18/battle-over-colorado-river-water-ends-in-a-draw/ <-- shared technical/media article
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https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/08/us/colorado-river-water-shortage/ <-- shared 2021 media article, with infographics and visualisations
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https://youtu.be/gBqgIkdwlIw?si=rY9ZOOXqLNwaXQku <-- shared media/news video
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#water #hydrology #stalled #negotiations #ColoradoRiverCompact #1922Compact #waterresrources #ColoradoRiver #USWest #watersecurity #watermanagement #irrigation #agriculture #overpumping #groundwater #states #agreements #magicwater #acrefoot #acrefeet #Colorado #Wyoming #Utah #NewMexico #Nevada #Arizona #California #Mexico #dams #LakePowell #LakeMead #natural #naturalresources #federaldeadline #noresolution -
America's largest reservoir remains in peril
One of California’s largest suppliers of drinking water in neighboring Nevada was at a troublingly low level yet again at the end of 2025. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation shows that the water elevation at Lake Mead’s Hoover Dam was 1,062.24 feet at the end of December. That’s the lowest it’s been during this time of the year since 2022, when it was 1,044.82 feet. Before that, levels were the lowest in 1936, when the region experienced a severe drought.
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Despite Calif. rains, America's largest reservoir remains in peril https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/despite-calif-rains-largest-reservoir-in-peril-21273482.php?sid=53b77971fdd5acf94e000452&stn=nf #LakeMead #Water #ColoradoRiver
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Auf den ersten Blick sinnvoll
"#Sparen ist gut", haben wir gelernt. Was passiert, wenn alle Bürger einer #Volkswirtschaft gleichzeitig für einen Monat nichts kaufen und von Vorräten leben würden?"#CO2-Ausstoß ist um jeden Preis zu vermeiden", klingt beim ersten Lesen ähnlich. Wenn der CO2-Sparaufruf weltweit gehört und beherzigt würde, wäre das sicher sehr gut. Man darf ja auch mal träumen...
Die behördliche Auflage, den #Trinkwasserverbrauch auf das Nötigste zu reduzieren, klingt ohne viel Grübeln sinnvoll.
Doch wie steht es mit der gleichzeitigen Förderung von #Steingärten anstelle von #Grünpflanzen in #Vorgärten, um eim Wässern von #Gartenpflanzen zu unterbinden?Das Verbot von #Wasserverschwendung und Förderung von Stein- und #Schottergärten wurde in #LasVegas, #Nevada, USA, als Reaktion auf eine #Dürre Anfang der 2000er Jahre erlassen.
https://taz.de/Royal-Flush/!6127391/Solche "#GärtenDesGrauens" https://www.mdr.de/mdr-garten/gestalten/schottergarten-alternativen-tipps-vorgarten-pflegeleicht-100.html sind in #Deutschland ja auch beliebt, wobei nicht das #Wassersparen im Vordergrund steht, sondern die Unterdrückung von "#Unkraut". In #NRW sind Schottergärten im Grunde verboten https://www.wohneigentum.nrw/beitrag/schottergarten-verbot ; ein Verstoß wird allerdings nicht unbedingt geahndet ("Wo kein Kläger, da kein Richter").
Etwa 70 Hektar ägyptischer #Wüste werden bei #Belbeis/Bilbeis, 60 Kilometer nordöstlich von Kairo, seit fast 50 Jahren mit Methoden der biologisch-dynamischen #Landwirtschaft bewirtschaftet https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sekem . #IbrahimAbouleish, der Gründer der #Sekem-Initiative, wurde dafür mit dem Right Livelihood Award ( #AlternativerNobelpreis ) ausgezeichnet https://sekem.com/de/dr-ibrahim-abouleish/ .
Zwei unterschiedlichliche Wege, um mit einer Wüstenumgebung umzugehen:--- Las Vegas: die Wüste in die Stadt holen
--- Sekem: der Wüste ein Stück entziehen, um es landwirtschaftlich nutzbar zu machen.Las Vegas liegt geografisch auf 36° nördlicher Breite, Belbeis nahe der ägyptischen Hauptstadt #Kairo auf etwa 30° nördlicher Breite. Eigentlich könnten beide Regionen #klimatisch sehr ähnliche Verhältnisse aufweisen. Aber diese grobe Regel gilt nicht exakt.
Nicht allein die geografische Lage bestimmt das lokale Klima, sondern auch die großräumige Umgebung:
Las Vegas ist weit und breit von trockenen Landflächen umgeben, der Pazifik etwa 300km entfernt; Sekem liegt in der Nähe des Nils und etwas weiter entfernt vom Mittelmeer. Der wesentliche Unterschied liegt eher im Ansatz, wie mit dem heißen Regionalklima umgegangen wird.
" 'Alles Wasser, was wir im Gebäudeinneren verwenden, wird recycelt. Wenn es in Las Vegas in den Abfluss gelangt, reinigen wir es und leiten es zurück in den Lake Mead. Man könnte buchstäblich jeden Wasserhahn und jede Dusche in jedem Hotelzimmer laufen lassen, und es würde kein weiteres Wasser verbraucht', sagte John Entsminger, General Manager der Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA), gegenüber CBS News."
Aber: Der Wasserstand des #LakeMead sinkt aufgrund des Klimawandels - in den vergangenen zwei Jahrzehnten um mehr als 45 Meter. Hofft man auf eine Änderung dieser Entwicklung?
Zukunftsfähig dürfte das nicht sein.
Vielleicht macht den Behörden und Bewohnern von Las Vegas ein Leben in der Hitze ja nichts aus, wenn sie in Räumen mit einer Klimaanlage entkommen können. In der Raumfahrtnation USA sollte irgendjemand mal erklären, wie man das in der Raumfahrt macht https://www.geo.de/wissen/weltall/recycling-im-raumanzug--dieses-system-verwandelt-urin-in-trinkwasser-34876676.html .Sekem-Gründer Ibrahim Abouleish hatte in #Österreich studiert. Die #Wüstenbegrünung nutzte europäisches und einheimisches Knowhow und dürfte im Bewußtsein um den #Klimawandel weitergeführt werden.
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Drought-Induced Changes In Groundwater-Surface Water Exchange At Lake Mead Area [Remote Sensing]
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2025.102996 <-- shared paper
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[disclaimer: the model details / math are way over my head technically - but a good read, regardless]
#water #hydrology #LakeMead #Drought #Impacts #humanimpacts #anthropogenic #Groundwater #SurfaceWater #InSAR #ElasticLoad #Model #WaterStorage #HydraulicConnectivity #modeling #waterresources #earthobservation #remotesensing #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #pumping #reservoir #climate #watermanagement #rebound #arid #connectivity #geology #lake #aquifer #subsurface #stressors -
Drought-Induced Changes In Groundwater-Surface Water Exchange At Lake Mead Area [Remote Sensing]
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2025.102996 <-- shared paper
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[disclaimer: the model details / math are way over my head technically - but a good read, regardless]
#water #hydrology #LakeMead #Drought #Impacts #humanimpacts #anthropogenic #Groundwater #SurfaceWater #InSAR #ElasticLoad #Model #WaterStorage #HydraulicConnectivity #modeling #waterresources #earthobservation #remotesensing #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #pumping #reservoir #climate #watermanagement #rebound #arid #connectivity #geology #lake #aquifer #subsurface #stressors -
The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·States That Rely on the Colorado River Miss Deadline to Agree on Cuts
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The Colorado River Basin has operated in the red for most of the 21st century. Experts call for broad water cuts, now.
Water stored in Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the basin’s two largest reservoirs, could fall to less than 4 million acre-feet of available water if the river’s flows and water demands are repeated next year, according to a report released Thursday by a team of Colorado River water experts.
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Colorado River Basin Has Lost As Much Water As A Full Lake Mead Since 2003, Study Says
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https://www.kjzz.org/science/2025-05-30/colorado-river-basin-has-lost-as-much-water-as-a-full-lake-mead-since-2003-study-says <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115593 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #CRB #ColoradoRiver #ColoradoRiverbasin #Reservoir #lakeMead #lakePOwell #watersupply #waterstorage #drought #climatechange #groundwater #mining #depletion #remotesensing #NASA #GRACE #GRACEFO #satellite #water #hydrology #population #usecase #farming #irrigation #agriculture #watersecurity #foodsecurity #usage #model #modeling #landsurface #sustainability #sustainable #extraction #aridification -
Colorado River Basin Has Lost As Much Water As A Full Lake Mead Since 2003, Study Says
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https://www.kjzz.org/science/2025-05-30/colorado-river-basin-has-lost-as-much-water-as-a-full-lake-mead-since-2003-study-says <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115593 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #CRB #ColoradoRiver #ColoradoRiverbasin #Reservoir #lakeMead #lakePOwell #watersupply #waterstorage #drought #climatechange #groundwater #mining #depletion #remotesensing #NASA #GRACE #GRACEFO #satellite #water #hydrology #population #usecase #farming #irrigation #agriculture #watersecurity #foodsecurity #usage #model #modeling #landsurface #sustainability #sustainable #extraction #aridification -
Colorado River Basin Has Lost As Much Water As A Full Lake Mead Since 2003, Study Says
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https://www.kjzz.org/science/2025-05-30/colorado-river-basin-has-lost-as-much-water-as-a-full-lake-mead-since-2003-study-says <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115593 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #CRB #ColoradoRiver #ColoradoRiverbasin #Reservoir #lakeMead #lakePOwell #watersupply #waterstorage #drought #climatechange #groundwater #mining #depletion #remotesensing #NASA #GRACE #GRACEFO #satellite #water #hydrology #population #usecase #farming #irrigation #agriculture #watersecurity #foodsecurity #usage #model #modeling #landsurface #sustainability #sustainable #extraction #aridification -
Colorado River Basin Has Lost As Much Water As A Full Lake Mead Since 2003, Study Says
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https://www.kjzz.org/science/2025-05-30/colorado-river-basin-has-lost-as-much-water-as-a-full-lake-mead-since-2003-study-says <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115593 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #CRB #ColoradoRiver #ColoradoRiverbasin #Reservoir #lakeMead #lakePOwell #watersupply #waterstorage #drought #climatechange #groundwater #mining #depletion #remotesensing #NASA #GRACE #GRACEFO #satellite #water #hydrology #population #usecase #farming #irrigation #agriculture #watersecurity #foodsecurity #usage #model #modeling #landsurface #sustainability #sustainable #extraction #aridification -
Colorado River Basin Has Lost As Much Water As A Full Lake Mead Since 2003, Study Says
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https://www.kjzz.org/science/2025-05-30/colorado-river-basin-has-lost-as-much-water-as-a-full-lake-mead-since-2003-study-says <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115593 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #CRB #ColoradoRiver #ColoradoRiverbasin #Reservoir #lakeMead #lakePOwell #watersupply #waterstorage #drought #climatechange #groundwater #mining #depletion #remotesensing #NASA #GRACE #GRACEFO #satellite #water #hydrology #population #usecase #farming #irrigation #agriculture #watersecurity #foodsecurity #usage #model #modeling #landsurface #sustainability #sustainable #extraction #aridification -
Lake Mead’s Iconic Vertical Speedboat Removed
An abandoned speedboat sunk in Lake Mead was removed from near the shoreline. The boat, known as the "Monolith of Lake Mead,” drew attention in 2022 when the water level in Lake Mead dropped 188 feet.
https://www.casino.org/news/lake-meads-iconic-vertical-speedboat-removed/
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Lake Mead levels could drop below historic lows by mid-2027
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation projects Lake Mead’s water level could drop to about 1,038 feet by the end of June 2027, according to a 24-month forward-looking study released Tuesday. That is roughly 2 feet lower than the historic lows seen in July 2022.
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Los Vegas grows, Lake Mead shrinks, the climate warms. Obviously this is not sustainable. https://gogeomatics.ca/lake-mead-from-above-its-decline-through-the-landsat-lens/ #earthobservation #LakeMead #ClimateChange
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Critical reservoirs Lakes Mead, Powell hit 'alarmingly low levels' again
A report shows that both Mead and Powell have "reached alarmingly low levels, holding just one-third of their usual capacity."
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Megadrought Reveals Volcanic Ash at Lake Mead, Offering a Better Look at the Lake's Past
Volcanic ash from volcanoes in Wyoming, Idaho, and California was deposited in the rocks along the shore. The ash samples ranged from 6 million to 12 million years old.
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Lake Mead's concerningly low level prompts National Park Service action
Lake Mead is dropping to its third lowest level in a decade, and poor snowpack in Colorado isn’t expected to boost the water level much. Lake Mead boat ramps are being modified to remain useable at lower water levels.
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Lake Mead in for a painful summer after dry winter
"Lake Mead’s infamous bathtub ring is expected to get bigger this summer as low snowpack levels in the Rocky Mountains choke the reservoir’s biggest source of water – the Colorado River."
#LakeMead #ColoradoRver #drought
https://nevadacurrent.com/2025/05/20/lake-mead-in-for-a-painful-summer-after-dry-winter/
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Episode 9 of 9,000-mile trans-#usa & #mexico #overland #roadtrip: From the great #MoabMagic #desert of #Utah into the great #mojave desert of #nevada and #extraterrestrial (ET) #area51 #aliens territory: https://thevagabondcouple.blogspot.com/2024/07/trans-america-overland-road-trip-part-9-zion-utah-las-vegas-hoover-dam-lake-mead-extraterrestrial-et-highway-nevada.html
#Zion - #LasVegas - #HooverDam - #LakeMead - start of #extraterrestrialhighway#VagabondCouple #overlanding #travel #travelblogger #travelphotography #roadtripusa #wanderlust #WanderlustUSA
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The #ColoradoRiver is shrinking due to #ClimateChange, which means the nation's 2 largest #reservoirs, #LakeMead & #LakePowell, created by #dams, have reached record low levels in recent years amid a #megadrought spanning >2 decades. If #water levels fall much lower, they could lose the ability to generate #hydropower within the massive dams that hold them back, or even lose the ability to pass water downstream.
#Trump #Idiocracy #PublicDisservice #USpol #DrinkingWater #Agriculture #economy
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hoover dam
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Image-use requests are welcome via nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com#photography #film #blackandwhite #bw #hooverdam #arizona #nevada #lakemead #dam #powerlines #hydroelectric #mountains #1950s
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#Biden-#Harris administration inks deals to bring major relief to #ColoradoRiver’s biggest reservoir https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4901699-colorado-river-conservation-deals-lake-mead/ #USpol
"#LakeMead has been dwindling due to both overconsumption and #climate-fueled #drought... The administration and SW #Colorado River users have partnered on a large-scale #conservation effort... the agreements with #Arizona’s #GilaRiver Indian Community is expected to conserve about 73,000 acre-feet of water within the next decade."
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hoover dam
1957https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/51833985321
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/3314962418/part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com#photography #film #BlackAndWhite #bw #HooverDam #ColoradoRiver #LakeMead #HydroelectricPower #nevada #arizona #dam #1950s
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Wonderful to get back on the water yesterday — especially before the weekend holiday crowds! #LakeMead #LasVegas #Photography #Kayaking #iphonephotography
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Two Men Indicted For Damaging Rock Formations At National Recreation Area In Nevada
"...A federal grand jury indicted two Henderson men for allegedly damaging ancient rock formations at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada.... If convicted, the defendants each face up to ten years imprisonment."
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/two-men-indicted-damaging-rock-formations-national-recreation-area-nevada #LakeMead #vandalism #tourons #NPS
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Great hike this morning out at Lake Mead with my better half. #Photography #LasVegas #LakeMead
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For #Mondog here's goofbutt checking out Painter's Cove at Lake Mead a few years ago.
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@elaterite
National Park Service needs help identifying public land vandals at Lake Mead National Recreation Area.If you were on the Redstone Dunes Trail on the evening of Sunday, April 7, 2024, or if you have information that could help identify the suspects, please contact investigators on the National Park Service tip line at 888-653-0009, www.nps.gov/SubmitATip, or by emailing [email protected]
#Vandalism
#NationalPark #NPS
#Redstone #RedstoneDunes #LakeMead #LMNRA #LMRA #LasVegas -
National Park Service needs help identifying public land vandals at Lake Mead National Recreation Area. If you can help ID these clowns please contact the Park at 702-293-8990. #Nevada #LasVegas #LakeMead #HooverDam #Boulder #Desert #Hiking #Outdoors #Camping #Boat #Boating https://www.npr.org/2024/04/16/1245062311/lake-mead-rock-formations-destroyed
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"Earlier this month, a #video posted to #SocialMedia captured two men destroying ancient #rock formations at #LakeMead National Recreation Area in #Nevada. National park rangers are asking for the public’s help in identifying the visitors, who could face federal charges for vandalizing protected land."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/04/15/lake-mead-video-rocks-destroyed/Link to Video: https://www.instagram.com/p/C5qM2V-g7KX/v
#NationalPark #NationalParks #Nature #Geology #History #Crime #USA #News
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The world’s largest #lakes are shrinking dramatically and scientists say they have figured out why
These significant bodies of water include the Colorado River’s #LakeMead, which has receded sharply amid a #megadrought and decades of #overuse.
By Laura Paddison, CNN
Published May 18, 2023 4:29 PM EDT
The shrinking of many lakes has been well documented, but the extent of change – and the reasons behind it – have been less thoroughly examined, said Fangfang Yao, the study’s lead author and a visiting scholar at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder.
The researchers used satellite measurements of nearly 2,000 of the world’s largest lakes and reservoirs, which together represent 95% of Earth’s total lake water storage.
Examining more than 250,000 satellite images spanning from 1992 to 2020, along with climate models, they were able to reconstruct the history of the lakes going back decades.
The results were “staggering,” the report authors said.
They found that 53% of the lakes and reservoirs had lost significant amounts of water, with a net decline of around 22 billion metric tons a year – an amount the report authors compared to the volume of 17 Lake Meads.
More than half of the net loss of water volume in natural lakes can be attributed to human activities and climate change, the report found.
The report found losses in lake water storage everywhere, including in the humid #tropics and the cold Arctic. This suggests “drying trends worldwide are more extensive than previously thought,” Yao said.Different lakes were affected by different drivers.
#Unsustainable water consumption is the predominant reason behind the shriveling of the #AralSea in Uzbekistan and California’s #SaltonSea, while changes in rainfall and runoff have driven the decline of the #GreatSaltLake, the report found.
In the #Arctic, lakes have been shrinking due to a combination of changes in temperature, precipitation, evaporation and runoff.
“Many of the human and climate change footprints on lake water losses were previously unknown,” Yao said, “such as the desiccations of #LakeGoodEZareh in Afghanistan and #LakeMarChiquita in Argentina."
#WaterIsLife #WaterWars #Consumption #ClimateCrisis
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https://www.accuweather.com/en/climate/worlds-largest-lakes-see-sharp-declines/1528645 -
It’s not just Glen Canyon—dams around the Southwest are taking a hit - Enlarge / Water levels at the Hoover Dam are well below capacity. (cred... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1845708 #southwesternunitedstates #hydroelectricpower #californiadrought #unitedstates #california #lakepowell #newmexico #lakemead #science #climate #drought #nevada #utah
