re: The U.S.'s largest reservoir, Lake Mead, is literally drying up (pictures)

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Is it the worst drought ever, or is it because more folks are taking the water?

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Water usage. Most of Nevada is owned by the government in turn they have the rights to a lot of the water sources.
That marina in the pic is where I used to fish. The government tried to supress for years that they displaced a whole town to build Boulder Dam. We used to go fishing where the houses were because they were essentially reefs at that point.

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CA refuses to create more so this is the result.

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They really do siphon away the water and the electricty. Most of the power generated at Hoover goes to Cali and Vegas just gets a really good rate