Nor any drop to drink

摘要

A few warning signs and a rickety pier are all that remain of Overton Beach's once-busy lakeside marina. The boats have been gone since February, towed more than 30 miles (50km) to where they are in less danger of running aground. Fish-cleaning stations are now hundreds of yards from the receding shoreline. At the local rangers' station, a placard describes the Lost City, an ancient Indian settlement drowned when the Hoover Dam was built in the 1930s. That city is no longer lost: so low has the surface of Lake Mead fallen that it is re-emerging from the water.