Ouch, you really got me there.

Insulted by a barely-functioning, illiterate 'tard.

and there reasons for it are ?
fracking ?
excessive water consumption ?
exploiting environment for money by various ways ?

yes, they are changing out the turbines

article here

aerial pic my bf took 6 months ago

http://www.cbbw.net/media/2015/05/IMG_4232.jpeg

I was in a vineyard recently & there was no drought. It's politics.
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I just looked at that article.
WTF?

It says that Lake Mead's water level is affecting the ability of the Dam to generate electricity.

Uhmmm...HELLO! The Hoover Dam generates electricity from damming up the Colorado River NOT Lake Mead.

Lake Mead is a man-made lake that is a byproduct of The Hoover Dam. It's used for water in Vegas and recreation. Not to "generate electricity" like that article says. lol

There is a lot of people living around there, and they need water. They will need to get it from somewhere else. Lake Mead is artificial source of water too, Nevada is desert, originally, especially around there.

people need water and Nevada is a desert. got it.

i chortled. :1orglaugh

I was watching the local news at noon here today in Vegas.

They did a story on how Lake Mead is getting lower and that the allocation for Nevada from the Colorado River is about to be cut even more.
They said that could very well lead to water shortages here by 2017.

Serious stuff huh?

Then they suddenly smiled and announced the headlining acts for this year's "Life Is Beautiful" music festival in Downtown Vegas! lol

"We are running out of water...but here's the good news! We're bringing in lots more tourists!" lol

that news segment was sponsored by a las vegas water park/water show.

I don't live there, I was in Texas about month last year while road tripping and traveled around central Texas quite a bit. There were lakes and dried up river beds like this all over. The other issue which was really bad in Texas more than anywhere else was the algae in the lakes & rivers. Un-regulated fertilizer usage for farming and people's yards has changed the chemistry of the water and it's causing massive algae blooms, which kills fish and other critters which live in the rivers & lakes.. (we have the same issue in FL as well) People seriously need to wake the fuck up and stop fertilizing their shitty lawns.. It's destroying our lakes & rivers.

Colorado was no where near as bad and it rained a decent amount while I was there but I don't think it rained one time the month I was in Texas.