The Real Reason Lake Mead's Water Levels are Rising 

Let's see...more rain and increasing snowpack can result in the water level rising. Brilliant!

This video HAS reached Deadpool status.

The state of Nevada only uses 1% of its allocated share of water from lake mead. The southern Nevada water authority has been able to recapture, recycle and reuse 98% of the water we pull out of Lake mead. We are definitely not the problem. We are currently the only state that has been able to conserve such a high amount of water.

I have a question. Has Lake Mead almost reached dead pool status?

California, the state that lectures the other 49, but makes the worst decisions.

Take a drink whenever he says deadpool status

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When a video with the pretentious phrase of "The Real Reason" in the title claims to explain something it is almost a given the video will come up short. The video does use good graphics to explain the circumstances of Lake Mead, but ends coming short on a lot of details. At the beginning of the video the narrator stated that Lake Mead had fallen so much in 2022 that was at almost at Dead Pool status. Lake Mead dropped to 1040' as stated at another point, but that is still 145' above dead pool (which is 895') and 90' above Minimum Power Pool. So how is 145' from Dead Pool ""almost dead pool? That is a vague statement totally lacking any attribution in this video. And that latter term, Minimum Power Pool, was not even mentioned in this video. In addition later in the video the narrator said that Lake Mead dropped to a record low because of high water use, but the video says nothing about the extreme drought affecting the region which was a second big reason for the record low level Lake Mead reached in 2022. And there is still another reason why Lake Mead dropped as low as it did and that had to do with Colorado snow pack. Colorado actually had a normal snow pack in 2022, but because of a warmer than normal temperature in late winter much of the snow sublimated!! In other words much of the snow evaporated away because of warm dry weather and never reached the river channel. What water run off from the snow pack that did make into the river channel was absorbed by the dry river bed. Consequently, a much smaller percentage of snow melt reached either of the two main reservoirs downstream. This video was also repetative in repeating the same facts several times which indicates that narrative was poorly written as well as lacking explanation for statements made.

If you took a drink every time they say "dead pool status" you would be hammered.

Let's try to depress people further than they are already by minimizing the effect of the largest, best snow pack in recent history.

Wow !... who would have thunk that rain and snow could make a lake rise.......

Wow,,nice lake..beautiful nature

It’s always been a water usage problem not a supply problem.

I'm guessing the reason the lake is rising is because more water is coming in than is going out. Wow, I must be a hydrologic engineer.

This is a wonderful reprieve! The only downside is the encouragement it gives climate change deniers who base their opinions on a narrow focus on what the weather is doing this year, or this season, or even just today.

I live in the Utah mountains. We have 4 times the snow we had last year. Flaming Gorge will fill this summer then they will need to spill down into Powell. Lake Powell will go up 45 - 50 feet by this summer. They have bought themselves at least 3 more years to build golf coerces. Long term the problem is still here but for then next 3 years the emergency is over and it's back to wasting water like in the past.

CA is supposed to be the most environmentally friendly state out of all the states in the south west yet it's the only one not will to reduce water usage.

California needs to get it's house in order.

This narrator used the term “ Dead pool status “ multiple times but never once told the viewers what in the hell Dead pool status is. Some one needs to explain to this genius to tell the viewers at least once whatDead pool status is.

Did you say - dead pool status?

California needs to look north if it wants more water. All that rain waters just going into the ocean!

Be happy that you’re being blessed with water.

having visited hoover dam two months ago, its good to see some recharging of the reservoir

california refused to cut back, now they are getting flooded and buried in snow. kharma ?

How many times in 8 minutes can someone say "Deadpool status"? This guy was seeking the Guinness Book of World Record status on this one....

I assure you nobody here in Las Vegas thought their life was in danger.

I was hoping for a success story like the ones in California I keep hearing about. Those reservoirs filled up already, but I think they were quite small comparatively. To be fair, even 6 feet of water at Lake mead is an absolutely incredible amount of water, but so is the amount they lost.

That's very good news about Lake Mead.

this guy really likes saying "Deadpool Status"

Love this video, I was scrolling down looking for my next video to watch, another video loaded 5 days ago heading says it finally happened Colorado river dried up, so many videos says one thing and others says another about the same topic, so what is true, what is false?

The real reason is the climate isn’t static and the earths climate isn’t controlled by the car you drive.

you keep repeating the same info, just give us what it was last year or past and give us data today, Stop trying to make it difficult

I'm sorry it will take years to get back. Years of snowpack.

I live at lake mead it ain't rising trust me.

CA should have started building local-dometic water reservoir for both rain & river water. CA population doubled since 1970 but there has been NO water project to increase water supply. It is insane how in ineffective the CA state bureaucrats are and the insane amount of money they wasted every year. For example, CA state gov wasted more than 8 Billions dollar for the homeless, not counting the local county-city homeless spending, all these money were wasted.

How does rain in California help lake mead?

Uhhh high impact snow in the Rockies this season. You so intelligent !!

Does anybody know if Lake Mead has almost hit Deadpool status? I don't think he made it clear enough

can canals be dug from nearby water sources to Lake Mead, almost like another river, perhaps from Rocky Mountains where there is a lot of snowpack?

I enjoyed a new drinking game. Every time I heard the phrase “dead pool status” I took a shot. I’m about five shots in, and I’ve lost count. Re-watch this video with that in mind and enjoy!

Colorado river rights support Colorado and Utah--not Mead. I believe Utah gets the majority of their Colorado river rights by by using the Strawberry reservoir to divert some of the water that would normally flow into the Green. Eastern Utah does not have a lot of agriculture. There is not aqueduct or pipe from Powell or Mead to populated areas in Utah. Of the upper basin water Utah is entitled to 7.5% which they use around 60% a year. The vast majority of Colorado river is used by California and Arizona. This also makes sense due to geography. Just want to make sure it is clear what Lake Mead supports. Utah and Colorado is supported by all the great vegetables they get from California. I don't think Almond milk is all that important IMO.

It’s crazy how much water is used in az, Vegas and so cal to water grass. Get rid of lawns and there’s no longer a water shortage.

Deadpool status - I wanted to say it too. Deadpool status, ok that’s my last time. Deadpool … status

How many times did he say “dead pool status” ?

Build a 8' high pressure water line from the Mississippi to Lake Powell!

3:31- Black mesa surface Tension dam canyon. ❤

With historic snow packs this year then how can they say it will be lower like last summer? There will be snow in the mountains till July so snow will be melting into the lake all summer

If 3 months of monsoon rains haven’t fully replenished water levels, then Lake Meade is a lost cause.

This is such a good video!!! I love Lake Powell…Page is a a breathtaking city! Better views than the Grand Canyon in my opinion.

I'm amazed that nationally/globally wide that when dry seasons hit, inland waterways are not recut. When areas are dry or even relatively dry, dig out the creeks, rivers, ponds ect. That rich soil could be used for farmland. The tuns of soil removed will allow for more water to be displaced where you want it.

Record snowfalls in the mountains will help big time this summer

Groundbreaking news, I just found out lake mead is in a different state @ :24, so much has changed in the last few months, what state is it in now? Utah, maybe California

If this was a above record snowfall year in the Rockies and El Nino is just beginning will that make another record snowfall year? In 1996 there was a El Nino year and the desert was flooded in Ridgecrest Ca where I was living.

So happy 4 Lake Mead

Huge pipelines from flood prone areas to supply water to lakes in drought ridden areas. Every year great bounties of water come down from the sky and cause insufferable damage on the effected communities. Areas that are prone to regular flooding would be great candidates for fresh water retrieval BEFORE it floods and becomes mixed with waste water and other undesirable contaminates.

Here in Michigan we have lots of water

Flaming Gorge in Southern Wyoming is also a major back-up source -

The water level in Lake Mead has been falling for over a decade, not just because of high water usage in 2022

This didn't happen overnight. It's been happening over years. Great that's there is an above average snowpack but far from solving the problem. It's going to take years to come back to old levels but the demand outweighs the supply for years now. There isn't an easy solution in order to solve the problem. The future for Mead and Powell doesn't look promising at this point.

Please, look up Bi-National Laguna Salada project! In a nutshell, flooding Laguna Salada, Mexico increases precipitation in the whole Colorado River Watershed by 15%

Drinking game: Each time "deadpool status" is mentioned, you have to take a shot.

might California review it's opposition since it's reservoirs and snowpack have improved recently?

How much of this water is granted free to old water rights for farms in California ??? Residential water use in California is only 15% the rest is agriculture and and left over for environmental purposes like water for our salmon that have been being killed because of lack of water.

On another note, flooding across California for the past few months results in all that water going back in the Ocean! No reclamation!! Let's continue to raise pricing!😂

Hey, I live in Northern California and Im also sick of Southern California taking water from up here.

For a minute there I thought the video was looping. For a minute there I thought the video was looping. For a minute there I thought the video was looping. For a minute there I…….stopped the video because Lake Mead is rising because it’s not summer. 🤯🤯🤯

Maybe it would help if people quit trying to grow lawns in a desert.

Well,all these golf courses, rather than usen good clean water, use "" reclaimed water"" , if you know what that is. That alone would save a huge amount of water.

6:25- Hoover dam.

It took some 30 years to fill Lake Mead after Hoover Dam was completed. One winter's rain and snow will not be enough to even make a noticeable difference and water restrictions are only months away again.

Congress should tell California, TOUGH LUCK.' All States receiving water from Lake Mead will receive an equal share of water. If the farmers complain, let them find another occupation or move to Nevada or Arizona and start a farm there...

It's my understanding that California has removed 80-90 river dams in the past 30 years while insisting on its right to suck water off the Colorado River. Much of the Southwest is subject to drought/flood cycles historically. Now we're in a flood cycle and I'm wondering if missing dams are part of the reason California has so much property damage.

So nothing happened...great vid man lol

There has been a La Nina the last 3 years which creates drier than normal conditions for the southwest. Fortunately it is predicted that El Nino will return this year perhaps increasing rainfall totals there this year.

All of the alarmist chatter about dead pool status is always done while never mentioning the numbers. Dead Pool is a water elevation of roughly 900 feet. Last July Mead was at 1041 with 89% of average snow pack. It's now 1046 and rising with a massive snowpack nearing 200% of average. No where near dead pool. And there is no currently defined scenario for the catastrophic dead pool any time soon or even in a distant future. So why is it constantly being suggested & implied as a real worry? It's not. The real worry is how politicians will address the growing demand and consumption.

The best way to conserve water/use less is to CLOSE THE BORDER. The problem is not lack of rain/snow BUT OVERUSE on the river. It was never designed to support the numbers of people in the southwest along with agriculture use.

The real reason for rising water levels in Lake Mead has been me peeing in it for the last year...

I'm wondering if all this new weight is going to trigger the big one🤔

Would love to see you do a video on the *real* reason Lake Mead dropped so drastically over a few years. Hint: it has almost nothing to do with climate change.

Lake mead and powell continue to fall, Arizona, Nevada, and California contribute no water to the Colorado River, last River that flows year round into the Colorado is the San Juan. My name is Bicycle Bob and I approved this message and Heyduke lives!

It's a good news👍

California has seen record rainfall & an above average snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Their reservoirs are filling back up. They shouldn't be sivening water from Lake Meade at all. If I were negotiating Lake Meade's & the Colorado River's water useage, I would definitely take those conditions to the table. California should NOT be able to use the water coming from Lake Meade & the Colorado River this year (or, years when they don't need it do to their precipitation & storage levels.) Cut em off!

If Lake Mead gets so low it can no longer flow as far as California, I see that as a problem solved. The other six states can get their water and California can figure their own shit out.

Rain. Or specifically, storms coming in dumping snow, which melts into water.

Western Colorado uses very little of its allotment. Since most of Colorado’s population uses water off the Atlantic drainage, water that flows east of the continental divide. The lower basin states take most of the water. If you look at the big picture, Colorado contributes a major addition to the water, but takes very little. It’s gravity!!

Take a note from the book of The Euphrates river in the fertile cresent. The more reservoirs/dams you tax a river with, the populations around those massive reservoirs explode and the consumption goes through the roof and then you start choking off supply downstream which causes even more demand. The hoover dam lake Meade reservoir was at capacity until the Davis dam came into being. The consumption tripled and it doesn't matter how much snow or rain you get, it's eventually going to dry up. They need to look for other sources of water. Maybe extending the aqueduct system from the high Sierra down into death valley and into the Colorado. They've been talking about bringing in water all the way from the coast but they won't spend the money.

Just a few months ago, we heard it would take 10 plus years to reverse the past 5 years. Here we are 5 months later.

Mead is up one foot. And it is expected that Lake mead will rise another one foot in the coming days because of the Grand Canyon high release; (They are giving the Grand Canyon a rinse and spit for three days. Helps moving sand, beaches, fish, debris, rocks,,, to help natural processes.) Note,,, One foot,,, another one foot,, ONLY 170 more feet to go.

I am amazed that you allow recreation in your water sources. People drink that water, don't they ??

Click bait

Before people rag on California , remember that California has a much larger population and a lot of farms that use up much of that water. Also these farms produce food for those other states along with california . Limiting California's water will effect food prices even more than the high prices we see already and that would be for all the states ..

"by looking at this map we can understand how snowpack affects the lake" - immediately switches away from map.

You can thank the eruption of the Hunga Tunga volcano last year for all the water and as i predicted both Powell and Mead will be completely full by mid june, im here in slc Utah and Alta ski resort has a record snow about of over 900 inches and winter here isnt over yet and i predict that Alta ski resort will get an ideational 5 feet of snow by the end of may, back in 1986 it snowed the 4th of July

I think he just likes to say "Dead pool status". 😂

Too repetitive. This video could have been made in 3 min!

Goal of this stupid video: how many times can we say “Deadpool status” in 8 minutes.

In the headline you say lake mead is rising!! I thought it was dropping!!

Please take care water ...💧is live

Lake Mead should be managed at the federal level and water should be allocated by a states population

Did anyone freak out in the late 50's and mid 60's when the population wasn't what it is today? As we already know, mis management was the cause of this. Me watering my little putting green of a back yard and washing my truck had nothing to do with it.