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    This document discusses water conservation efforts around Lake Mead, whose water levels have dropped alarmingly in recent decades due to drought and increasing water usage. Lowering excess water usage could help raise the lake's levels. Stakeholders have announced plans to fund conservation initiatives and stabilize the lake, including a $200 million funding pool. Coordinated conservation efforts from all who rely on the lake are needed to preserve its ability to provide water.

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    This document discusses water conservation efforts around Lake Mead, whose water levels have dropped alarmingly in recent decades due to drought and increasing water usage. Lowering excess water usage could help raise the lake's levels. Stakeholders have announced plans to fund conservation initiatives and stabilize the lake, including a $200 million funding pool. Coordinated conservation efforts from all who rely on the lake are needed to preserve its ability to provide water.

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    This document discusses water conservation efforts around Lake Mead, whose water levels have dropped alarmingly in recent decades due to drought and increasing water usage. Lowering excess water usage could help raise the lake's levels. Stakeholders have announced plans to fund conservation initiatives and stabilize the lake, including a $200 million funding pool. Coordinated conservation efforts from all who rely on the lake are needed to preserve its ability to provide water.

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    Lowering Your Usage of excess water can help Lake Mead Water level, which is dropping at an

    alarming rate

    Who can deny the importance that water serves in almost all aspects of our lives? We depend

    on water as a resource to sustain our lives, operations, and different activities. However, despite being a

    renewable resource, increased rate of depletion would mean turning it into non-renewable resource. A

    majority of us now have a better understanding about threats of global warming. Besides, out of those

    that have this knowledge, only a few seem to acknowledge the urge to take measures to help conserve

    the environment. Water conservation now remains one of the fundamental components of

    sustainability. In one of studies conducted by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), ‌saving

    the natural resources and sustaining its availability forms one of the starting points into ensuring all

    living beings continue to benefit from the gift of life.

    Increasing failure for us to show consciousness about our lifestyle, consumption patterns, and

    wastage are among factors contributing to lower water levels in different water sources. Lake Mead has

    now become a victim of our reckless lifestyle in ways that the people of the Southern United States–

    Nevada and Arizona use its water. For those of us who seem to have little knowledge about Lake Mead, I

    think I need to take a little of my time sharing not just its geographical location, but its formation and

    the importance it has had for the people of Nevada and Arizona. Lake Mead is a reservoir that was

    created by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in the Southern United States. It occurs just 39 km

    east of Las Vegas. Currently, it remains one of the largest reservoirs in the country, holding only 26.63

    percent of full capacity of water. This is equivalent to 9,272,000 mega-liters of water.


    However, it is surprising that despite having the capacity to hold such a large volume of water,

    studies have shown the lake has fallen below its full capacity since 1983. Of course, two major reasons

    cited for this are an ever-pasting drought in the area and increasing water consumption at home for

    domestic use, agriculture, cities, and industrial usage (National Park Service par. 10).

    Lowering your water usage of excess water could help save water level, which seems to drop at

    an alarming rate. According to the National Park Service, the lake receives most of its water from the

    melting snow coming from Utah, Rocky, Colorado, and Wyoming neighboring mountains. It is important

    to point out the role of upstream Glen Canyon Dam in the moderation of water flowing into the lake.

    Controlling how we use water in our homes would mean saving on our consumption rate. Currently, the

    lake supports the lives of people living in seven states, tribal lands, and Northern Mexico. However,

    ongoing drought conditions seem to have greater effects. It has pushed the water levels to be at its

    lowest since 1074.

    Efforts to conserve water from the lake would serve over 1.5 million households annually 90.

    Conservation was ensuring we add around 15 feet total to the reservoir level (Thompson 2). I think this

    helps in highlighting some efforts by both the Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) and the

    Central Arizona Project (CAP) to hold a briefing to show their combined initiatives of preparing for

    shortage and bringing back water to its intended water levels. The initiative made it possible to bring

    together all stakeholders together to agree on a new water conservation plan to stabilize water level.

    For example, in 2021, the key stakeholders announced the need to bring together a funding pool of over

    $200 million. The plan has sought stakeholders to call for the use of the water conservation approach

    while ensuring temporary holding of water for use by everyone.

    The water that residents and visitors in Las vegas use seems to go through a long process. It is

    through this use that the same water finds itself in the same lake and re-used several times before it is
    Depleted. A majority of the people living in urban areas such as Southern Nevada use water whose

    journey begins from Lake Mead. In specific, we can turn this into becoming one of the largest water

    suppliers. According to Thomson (2), he argues when the lake becomes full of water, we would witness

    28 million-acre feet of water. However, it is surprising to note that even though this might seem like a

    lot of water, Nevada continues to experience a limited supply of water every single year. The people

    living in the area enjoy only 300,000-acre feet of water. While most of you might not be aware of this,

    the allocation of this volume of water happened almost ten-decade years ago. Seven states in the

    Colorado river Basin decided on the amount of water would be available to each of the states.

    I would like you to imagine just a single drop of water that is likely to be part of our water cycle

    for several years. Any water that leaves the lake to travel through several pipes to the treatment centers

    for cleaning. It eventually finds itself in our homes and businesses. We use the same water for our

    domestic purposes and for industrial production. In fact, almost half of the water people use in Las

    Vegas finds itself in the outdoor landscape for irrigation. While we cannot recycle water that drains

    through such a life cycle back to the lake, the water we use indoors can easily be recycled back to the

    lake.
    List of cited sources

    National Park Service. “Lake Mead.” Water Use - Lake Mead National Recreation Area (U.S. National

    Park Service) (nps.gov)

    Thompson, Lucas. “Water conservation plan looks to reverse Lake Mead's historic decline.” Water

    conservation plan looks to reverse Lake Mead's historic decline (nbcnews.com)

    Thomson, Jess. “Lake Mead water use reductions essentials to stop catastrophic collapse. Lake Mead

    Water Use Reductions Essential to Stop 'Catastrophic Collapse' (newsweek.com)

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