Lake Mead shrinking - EU cuts gas consumption - Track records shattered

It’s at least the third time human remains have been recovered from Lake Mead in recent months, following two discoveries less than a week apart in May. The water levels at Lake Mead are the lowest they’ve been since the reservoir near Las Vegas was filled for the first time in April 1937 as Hoover Dam harnessed the Colorado River.
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[Lake Mead] is now 27% full. The reservoir is at top capacity when water levels reach 1,229 feet above sea level, but it is considered full at 1,219.6 feet. The reservoir last hit that top capacity in 1999. As of Tuesday, Lake Mead was about 1,040 feet above sea level. [The lowest water outlet is 895 feet above sea level].
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“In the last 1,200 years, we haven’t seen a period as dry as right now,” said Ann Willis, a researcher at the University of California at Davis. The lake supplies electricity to 350,000 homes, and is also a significant source of irrigation and drinking water to about 25 million people across the Southwest.