Lake Mead is dangerously close to becoming a "dead pool"
Lake Mead, which supplies electrical power and drinking water to millions of people in the American southwest, is drying up. It could soon become a "dead pool" and stop flowing to Hoover Dam.
From ABC News:
— Read the restThe minimum surface elevation needed to generate power at the Hoover Dam is 1,050 feet, according to the U.S.