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LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA, ARIZONA - SEPTEMBER 01: Water intake towers at the Hoover Dam stand next to a bleached "bathtub ring" on the banks of Lake Mead on September 01, 2026 in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Arizona. Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir, has fallen to its lowest level since it began filling nearly 90 years ago and is now just 26% full. In July, the combined storage of Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the country’s two largest reservoirs, fell to its lowest level since 1957, prompting the U.S. Department of the Interior to mandate twenty percent cuts in water usage for the next two years for Arizona, California and Nevada. Seven U.S. states and Mexico depend on the Colorado River Basin, which supplies water to more than 35 million people and is the water source for Lake Powell and Lake Mead. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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A view down Lake Mead's canyon shows the stark white "bathtub ring" left behind as water levels have dropped from decades of drought and heavy demand on the Colorado River.

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Lake Powell's red rock formations show a stark white mineral ring left behind by dramatically falling water levels, visual evidence of the reservoir's decline amid the Colorado River's ongoing water crisis.

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Colorado river. Low water level strip on cliff at lake Mead. View from Hoover Dam at Nevada and Arizona border, USA

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