The Higgins landing craft that has long been 185 feet below the surface is now nearly halfway out of the water at Lake Mead.
It was used to survey the Colorado River decades ago, sold to the marina and then sunk, according to dive tours company Las Vegas Scuba.
As water levels drop at both Lake Mead and Lake Powell upstream on the Arizona-Utah line, states in the U.S. West increasingly face deeper cuts to their supply from the Colorado River. The lower levels also impact hydropower produced at Hoover Dam and Glen Canyon Dam, which holds back Lake Powell. An acre-foot is about 325,850 gallons. An average household uses one-half to one acre-foot of water a year.
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