For decades, the reservoir created by the Hoover Dam has been a recreational haven for millions – and now drought has brought its waters to alarmingly low levels
Lake Mead, as seen from space on July 6, 2000, and July 3, 2022.What’s happening at Lake Mead is a symptom of serious economic and environmental problems. A hotter and drier climate has deepened a crisis that began with decades of overdrawing the Colorado, using its waters to turn deserts green for agriculture and support the many millions of people who have migrated to the Western U.S.
as the Boulder Dam, president Franklin Delano Roosevelt celebrated a “twentieth-century marvel” that had transformed “a cactus-covered waste.” “In the 20th century, Americans came to expect easy access to recreational outlets, almost as a right. It was a more affluent society, with more off-time,” said Jonathan Foster, a historian at Great Basin College who wrote. This lake in the desert was “symbolic of thinking: we can have everything,” the epitome of a philosophy of domination over nature.Though 7.5 million people still visited Lake Mead last year, only one boat ramp remains in operation, averaging 50 launches a day.
Visitors to the lake are greeted by a handwritten notation of the lake’s depth, measured in feet above sea level. On July 18, it was 1,041.3 feet. Nine days later, it had fallen to 1,040.69. The operators of the local marina are in a constant battle against the rapid change. A one-foot drop in water levels equates to “about 100 feet of dock on the beach,” said Bob Gripentog, whose family owns a group of companies along the lake.
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