Revelation 16:9 “They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.”
Important Takeaways:
- What happens if Lake Powell runs out of water?
- The lake was just under 24 percent full as of last week, and had lost 16 feet in the last year. Its depth level currently stands at around 3,530 feet.
- How much power does the lake generate?
- Northern Arizona’s Glen Canyon Dam, which creates the lake, has a full capacity of 1,320 megawatts, according to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. However, the receding water levels have already greatly reduced the reservoir’s generating capacity, to about 800 megawatts—about 60 percent.
- How many people rely on it?
- Lake Powell generates power for about 5.8 million households and businesses in Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
- What’s the point of no return?
- “We know that we’ll lose hydropower, and they won’t be able to make hydropower below 3,490,”
- If the lake’s levels drop below 3,490, Hawes added, the Bureau of Reclamation will have to run water through a series of river outlet tubes, the lowest delivery mechanism in the lake, for the first time since the 1980s, and bureau officials “don’t actually know if they can handle that much water,”
- The Glen Canyon Institute has advocated for draining Lake Powell, both to replenish Lake Mead and to restore Glen Canyon, which was flooded to create Lake Powell.
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2 Chronicles 7:13-14 When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
Important Takeaways:
- Staggering NASA satellite images show how Lake Mead has receded over the last 22 years as it drops to lowest level since 1937 Dust Bowl: Area’s ‘worst drought in 12 CENTURIES’
- New satellite images show a drastic drop in water levels at Nevada’s Lake Mead over the years – as the area grapples with what may be one of the worst droughts in US history
- The startling images come as it’s been revealed the historic lake – a reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River – has dropped to its lowest level in 85 years during the Dust Bowl in April 1937
- The photos released by NASA Thursday show the lake’s shrinking shoreline over the past two decades – a result of a more than 20-yearlong megadrought in the southwestern US
- The images are startling, chiefly due the body of water provides hydration to millions of residents of seven states in the region – California, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada and Wyoming
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Revelation 16:9 “They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.”
Important Takeaways:
- Lake Mead shrinks to record low amid punishing drought and consumer demand
- Lake Mead, the largest U.S. reservoir, has shrunk to a record low amid a punishing drought and the demands of 40 million people in seven states who are sucking the Colorado River dry.
- Receding waters of Lake Mead National Recreation Area have revealed the skeletal remains of two people along with countless desiccated fish and what has become a graveyard of forgotten and stranded watercraft.
- The reservoir is now below 30% of capacity. Its level has dropped 170 feet since reaching a high-water mark in 1983
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Leviticus 26:18-20 “And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins, and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. And your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
Important Takeaways:
- Lake Mead falls to an unprecedented low, exposing one of the reservoir’s original water intake valves
- The West is in the grips of a climate change-fueled megadrought, and Lake Mead – the largest manmade reservoir in the country and a source of water for millions of people – has fallen to an unprecedented low.
- The valve had been in service since 1971 but can no longer draw water, according to the Southern Nevada Water Authority
- As a result, the water authority has begun operating new, low-lake pumping station for the first time – a valve situated deeper at the bottom of Lake Mead
- New Mexico’s drought has been steadily intensifying since the beginning of the year, and extreme or exceptional drought now covers 68% of the state.
- Further west, water officials in Southern California are now demanding that residents and businesses limit outdoor watering to one day a week.
- It’s the first time they’ve implemented such a strict rule.
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