Freewill
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- Oct 26, 2011
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Not enough rain. Too much use.
Water in Lake Mead comes from Rockies snow pack. Use hasn't increased.
So you are saying that the snow pack is not melting?
- Most -- about 88 percent -- of the total annual flow of water in the Lower Colorado River Basin originates upstream of Glen Canyon Dam (in northern Arizona) as a result of natural runoff from precipitation and melting snow in the mountains of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico.Jun 4, 2015
- Nearly 97 percent of the water flowing into Lake Mead comes from theColorado River. The remaining 3 percent of the water in Lake Mead is from the Muddy and Virgin Rivers and the Las Vegas Wash.
Certainly the use has increased or at least stayed the same but that is improbable considering the population increases.