Water Use in Southwest Heads for a Day of Reckoning

Submitted by wrscpmd on Tue, 09/28/2010 - 8:57am

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Water Use in Southwest Heads for a Day of ReckoningJim Wilson/The New York Times

The Southern Nevada Water Authority is tunneling under Lake Mead to install an intake valve that could continue operating until water levels dropped below 1,000 feet.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/us/28mead.html?scp=1&sq=Water%20Use%20in%20Sou...

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Water Efficiency and Reuse Project

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Lake Mead Water Levels Chart

Submitted by pmd on Wed, 09/22/2010 - 12:00pm

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This chart is dynamically updated. This page reads data from a government archive of water heights for Lake Mead from 1935 to the present, and draws the chart on that basis.