https://coloradosun.com/2022/02/08/colorado-river-basin-runoff-drought/
Snows on the wrong side of the continental divide all that blue snow in the map of the second link when it melts is heading down the Mississippi river system not the Colorado. Those reds and oranges on the west side of the divide are bad news for lake mead and Powell. It will take three or more years of record snowfalls in a row to refill lake Powell and a couple more for mead. Those lakes can hold 5 years of water at full flows of 12 million acre feet per year. They have been short by 6+ million acre feet for a decade nearly now.
Lake mead is at record lows
http://mead.uslakes.info/level.asp
Vegas finished their third intake it sits at 860 feet 35 feet below dead pool where hoover dam cannot pass water down stream via gate. The turbines stop at 1005 only 62 feet of water left to run them with.
I’ve always wondered how a fast growing place like the Phoenix area could survive a long term drought. I believe they are getting their water from Lake Mead.
Too many human beings living in the desert southwest demanding water. Deport all illegal aliens, their children and the H1B workers and we would have no problem. Just subtract 100 million people from the Continental US. Let Vegas become a ghost town for all I care. It is a stupid idea, along with golf courses in S California, grass lawns, and swimming pools.