- Conservation
- Colorado River
- Apportionment
- Augmentation Study
- Lake Mead
- Law of the River
- Return-Flow Credits
- Surplus - Domestic
- Surplus - Flood Control
- Surplus - Intentionally Created
- Transfers & Exchanges
- Water Bank - Arizona
- Water Bank - California
- Water Bank - So. Nevada
- Unused Water
- Reclaimed Water Resources
- Groundwater
- Water Resource Plan
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Lake Mead
Lake Mead is the largest man-made reservoir in the United States. The reservoir, which stores Colorado River water, formed in the 1930s after the completion of Hoover Dam. Lake Mead can store approximately 26 million acre-feet of water.
Hoover Dam sits in Black Canyon on the Nevada-Arizona border. It regulates the flow of water to prevent flooding during wet years
and stores Nevada's, California's and Arizona's Colorado River allocations.
| Lake Mead's water sources: | |
| 97 percent | Colorado River |
| 1.5 percent | Virgin & Muddy Rivers |
| 1.5 percent | Las Vegas Wash |