Arizona’s Lake Mead just dropped to the lowest water level ever recorded since the lake was filled in the 1930s. Federal data put the reading at about 1,040 feet early Friday morning, breaking the record set back in July 2022. Full pool is 1,229 feet. The lake is sitting around 27% full and supplies water to more than 20 million people across Arizona, Nevada and California. The Bureau of Reclamation projects it keeps falling to roughly 1,009 feet by the middle of 2028. That is another 30 feet gone in two years. Arizona, Nevada and California are looking at collective cuts of up to 3 million acre feet a year under the operating framework released in July. The seven states on the Colorado River have been negotiating for years and still have no deal. Arizona’s lead negotiator has called it a crisis. Last time Mead hit a record low in 2022, the receding shoreline turned up sunken boats and a body inside a barrel. Have you been out to Mead lately? The shoreline looks nothing like it di...