Arizona Lake DROPS 89% In 24 Hours - 7,000,000+ Americans In Danger

San Carlos Lake just dropped to a fraction of one percent — an Arizona lake is vanishing as an entire Apache nation goes dry. A reservoir built to hold over 900,000 acre-feet now holds 388. San Carlos Lake, behind Coolidge Dam on the San Carlos Apache Reservation, has dried up earlier than any year on record. It hit roughly 42 acre-feet in 2021, rebounded to a record 529,300 in 2023, and by June 2026 sits at just 388 acre-feet — a film of mud behind a 249-foot dam. This is the story of a lake on tribal land that exists to send water 68 miles downstream to farms, the drowned town of old San Carlos rising back out of the cracked bed, a state-record fishery suffocating in the last warm pools, and a boom-bust reservoir that is bottoming out sooner every cycle. Sources: https://www.pinalcentral.com/casa_gra... https://www.globemiamitimes.com/stori... https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring... https://snoflo.org/reservoir/arizona/... https://www.kjzz.org/2023-01-25/conte... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolidg... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Car... https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/f... https://www.bia.gov/scip #CrisisRadar #SanCarlosLake #CoolidgeDam #Arizona #Drought #ApacheNation #WaterCrisis #GilaRiver #DryingLake #Reservoir #SanCarlosApache #WaterRights #ClimateChange #AmericanWest #BrokenEarth