Las Vegas water use has dropped, but affluent residents remain copious consumers

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The western United States is turning back into a desert. This means even less food available to ship out to us.

Human remains were discovered at Lake Mead National Recreation Area
in Nevada for the third time since May, the National Park Service confirmed
in a statement released on Monday (July 25).

"National Park Service rangers received a witness report of human remains
discovered at Swim Beach in Lake Mead National Recreation Area at
approximately 4:30 p.m. PST on Monday, July 25," the statement confirmed.

The agency didn't release the suspected age of the individual whose remains
were found in its initial release. The Clark County Medical Examiner's Office is
continuing to investigate the person's cause of death.

On July 6, the body of a woman was located near the Boulder Islands area
of Lake Mead, which was near the area in which a woman went missing after
falling off her jet ski on June 30, Lake Mead officials confirmed at the time.

The Clark County Medical Examiner later confirmed that the remains found
matched the woman reported missing after the jet ski accident, KSNV reported.

In May, human remains believed to be a victim killed in the 1970s or 1980s were
discovered in a barrel at the national recreation area.

Lake Mead, which was created by the construction of the Hoover Dam upon its
completion in 1935, is currently experiencing its lowest water levels since 1937,
which was the first time it had ever been filled, according to recent NASA satellite
images showing its change.

Lake Mead and Lake Powell upstream are the two largest man-made reservoirs
in the United States and responsible for providing more than 40 million people
with water in the western region, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada,
New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, as well as throughout the southern border in
Mexico, according to the Associated Press.