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  • America’s Biggest Reservoirs Hit By Dead Pool Jitters

    America’s biggest reservoirs hit by dead pool jitters

    Originally published: Countercurrents on August 6, 2022 by Robert Hunziker (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Aug 08, 2022)

    Hoover Dam’s Lake Mead is dangerously close to dead pool status for the first time since construction in the mid 1930s. A vicious hammering drought sequence for over two decades throughout the West threatens to bring America’s biggest water reservoir to its knees.