Climate Change: The Shrinking of Lake Mead, Colorado, USA - August 2000 compared to August 2021. Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the USA and part of a system that supplies water to over 40 million people across seven states as well as northern Mexico. As of August 2021, the lake was filled to just 35% capacity. The low water level comes at a time when 95% of the land in nine Western US states is affected by the continuation of a megadrought that may be the region's worst dry spell in 1200 years. A high resolution enhanced composite of original Landsat7 & Landsat8 imagery. Credit NASA

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