Topic: World Water Day Pictures: Epic Disappearing Acts

[sam]

A man stands on the end of a dock that used to lead to the waters of Lake Mead, the largest artificial reservoir in the U.S., in a 2008 photograph. Below, a picture taken near Hoover Dam shows the lake in 2006. (See another picture of the shrinking Lake Mead.)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/photogalleries/100322-world-water-day-2010-pictures-melting-glaciers/#world-water-day-lake-mead_17256_600x450.jpg

[Simon]

Slightly worrying.   

[sam]

yep 

[Rik]

It reminds me of the pictures of the summers of 1975/6.

[Simon]

I remember the standpipes. 

[sam]

It reminds me of the pictures of the summers of 1975/6.

doesn't remind me. 

[Simon]

[sam]

 

[Clive]

Happy days.   

[Simon]

Indeed, they were. 

[Rik]

When you could organise a barbecue a week or two ahead and not have to cancel due to the weather.

[Clive]

 

[Simon]

Except that you could fry burgers on the pavements, so you didn't need a BBQ.    I remember burning my feet on the sand on the Isle of Wight in 1976!  

[Rik]

A lifetime ago now. 

[Simon]

Well, not quite.