Lake Mead Dead Pool

If you haven’t heard Lake Mead is drying up, it’s a reservoir of Hoover Dam and one of the largest constructed lakes in the world on the Arizona-Nevada. It Borders 25 miles east of Las Vegas, Nevada. It was supposed to dam the Colorado River. Instead, Lake Mead extends 115 miles upstream from 1 to 10 miles wide and has a capacity of 31,047,000 acre-feet (38,296,200,000 cubic meters) with 550 miles (885 km) of shoreline and a surface area of 229 square…