Desert Surprise
by Susan Molnar
Title
Desert Surprise
Artist
Susan Molnar
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Photograph - Photograph - Fine Art Photography, Digital Photo-art, Digital Photo-painting. All Work Is Digitally Signed And Year-dated By The Photographer/artist.
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Flying in to Las Vegas airport, you see miles and miles of barren, dry desert, so it is a beautiful surprise when you see Lake Mead. This is an enormous body of water. According to Wikipedia, Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the United States in terms of water capacity. Formed by the Hoover Dam, the reservoir serves water to the states of Arizona, California, and Nevada, providing sustenance to nearly 20 million people and large areas of farmland. Lake Mead is on the Colorado River, about 24 mi (39 km) from the Las Vegas Strip, southeast of the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, in the states of Nevada and Arizona.
At maximum capacity, Lake Mead is 112 miles (180 km) long, 532 feet (162 m) at its greatest depth, has a surface elevation of 1,221.4 feet (372.3 m) above sea level and 247 square miles (640 km2) of surface area, and contains 26.12 million acre feet (32.22 km3) of water.
The lake has not reached full capacity, however, since 1983 due to a combination of drought and increased water demand. As of August 2017, Lake Mead was at approximately 40% of full capacity with 10 million acre-feet of held water. It has been smaller than Lake Powell (the second largest US reservoir when both are full) since 2013.
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August 31st, 2017
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