America’s west withers, Silicon Valley remains silent

san francisco As the water recedes, mysterious things emerge. Sunken ships, for example – or a barrel with the skeleton of a man. He had been murdered by the Las Vegas mafia decades earlier and thrown into the reservoir. Lake Mead is a tourist attraction and a life-giver, but now it’s mostly one thing: a symptom of a climate gone mad.

For years, the sun has been beating down relentlessly on the waters on the border of the US states of Arizona and Nevada. It hasn’t rained in the region for a long time, it’s drying up. The water level behind the mighty Hoover Dam is falling and falling, so far by 57 meters. This has never happened in the 80-year history of America’s largest man-made water reservoir.