Lake Meade

• Beached boats and sinking shorelines: See what extreme drought has exposed at Lake Mead – CNN
• Lake Mead: Largest US reservoir dips to record low – BBC News
• Lake Mead shrinks to record low amid punishing drought and consumer demand – CBS News
• Lake Mead update: Projections show record low water level coming soon – 8 News Now
• Lake Mead Water Levels Before and After Drought Is Sobering Shot of Future – Newsweek
• The latest on the Colorado River and Lake Mead report – CNN
• The shocking numbers behind the Lake Mead drought crisis – CNN
• Water Levels in Lake Mead Reach Record Lows – The Atlantic

Data

• Lake Mead Water Level – Lakes Online
• Lake Mead Drops to a Record Low – Landsat Image Gallery – NASA

Hoover Dam

• Hoover Dam, symbol of the modern West, faces a new test with an epic water shortage – AZ Central
• Severe drought threatens Hoover dam reservoir – and water for US west – The Guardian

Lake Powell

• Lake Powell officials face an impossible choice in the West’s megadrought: Water or electricity – CNN
• Lake Powell officials take unprecedented, emergency steps to delay water releases as level plummets – CNN
• Lake Powell’s water level drops seen in space images – 12news.com

Hydropower

Drain the Lake?

Salt Lake

• Great Salt Lake dry-up causing dangerous climate ripple effect, ecologists say – ABC News
• Great Salt Lake ‘In Trouble’ After Levels Fall To Historic New Low – HuffPost Impact
• How Utah scientists rang the alarm about the Great Salt Lake – Boise State Public Radio
• ‘Last nail in the coffin’- Utah’s Great Salt Lake on verge of collapse – The Guardian
• NASA images show Utah’s Great Salt Lake shrinking dramatically – Vox
• Nothing Good Happens When You Lose an Entire Lake. Researchers are calling for unprecedented intervention to save the Great Salt Lake.- Esquire
• PHOTOS: The Great Salt Lake is drying up and it could have a global impact – InHabitat
• Shocking photos reveal Utah’s great salt lake is drying up as locals divert 40% of its water to deal with drought – Daily Mail
• The water that couldn’t save: Will the Great Salt Lake go up in dust? – Deseret News
• Utah’s Great Salt Lake Is Drying Out – Smithsonian Magazine
• Why Is Utah’s Great Salt Lake Drying Up? – WorldAtlas
• Who’s to blame for our Great Salt Lake problem? And how can we fix it? – Utah Business
• With Great Salt Lake at rock bottom, lawmakers aim for rescue – NBC News

Toxic Dust

• As the Great Salt Lake Dries Up, Utah Faces an ‘Environmental Nuclear Bomb’ – The New York Times
• DRIED UP: In Utah, drying Great Salt Lake leads to air pollution  – The Hill
• Drying Great Salt Lake Could Expose Millions to Toxic Arsenic-Laced Dust – Smithsonian Magazine
• Great Salt Lake shrinks to unsustainable levels amid drought – VIDEO – PBS
• Great Salt Lake is shrinking fast. Scientists demand action before it becomes a toxic dustbin – CNN
• Opinion: The toxic tale of the Great Salt Lake: The Great Salt Lake is shrinking, and toxic metals contained in the exposed lakebed — cancer-causing toxins — are blown toward us with every dust storm- Deseret News
• Poisonous Dust Clouds Threaten Salt Lake City as the Great Salt Lake Continues to Lose Water – EcoWatch
• Salt Lake City’s efforts to fight pollution face a new challenge- Toxic dust – NBC News
• Scientists fear a Great Toxic Dustbowl could soon emerge from the Great Salt Lake – CNN
• Utah’s Great Salt Lake is drying out, threatening ecological, economic disaster – Reuters

Report

• Emergency measures needed to rescue Great Salt Lake from ongoing collapse – College of Life Science BYU