The grisly discovery of human remains at the bottom of Lake Mead is a grim reminder of the Southwest’s growing drought crisis.
In early May, a family on a boating outing in Lake Mead National Recreation Area found a four-decades-old skeleton of a man, a suspected homicide, stuffed into a rottedout barrel partially buried in the lake’s muddy banks. Skeletal remains were also discovered in May at nea…