{"id":85249,"date":"2026-08-08T06:42:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85249"},"modified":"2026-08-08T06:42:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:42:24","slug":"lake-mead-at-record-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/lake-mead-at-record-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Mead At Record Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From ABC:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">The water level at Lake Mead, the nation&#8217;s largest reservoir by storage capacity, hit a<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/lake-mead-lake-powell-nearing-record-low-levels\/story?id=135123327\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\">record low<\/a> on Thursday.\u00a0Lake Mead&#8217;s pool elevation hit the new low at 1,040.50 feet, breaking the previous record of 1,040.58 feet set in July 2022,\u00a0<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usbr.gov\/uc\/water\/hydrodata\/reservoir_data\/921\/dashboard.html#huc\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\">according to data<\/a>\u00a0published by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The reservoir, formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, is located in Nevada and Arizona and supplies water to millions of U.S. residents.\u00a0Prolonged drought conditions and exceptionally low snowpack have contributed to the significant declines in water levels at several Colorado River Basin reservoirs this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ABC: The water level at Lake Mead, the nation&#8217;s largest reservoir by storage capacity, hit a\u00a0record low on Thursday.\u00a0Lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85250,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85249\/revisions\/85250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}