So many bodies of water are drying up. I drove past what looked like a huge lake on the map a couple weeks ago, and saw only dry land. Lake mead is drying up and we are finding all kinds of fascinating things, but where does the water go?
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Copying my old comment since this is commonly asked in some form or another.
It can fall as precipitation, just somewhere else or in different conditions.
(Though technically it can also just not evaporate but that’s not really an issue with it getting warmer.)
Many areas saw record levels of flooding like [Montana](https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/17/us/gallery/montana-flooding-yellowstone/index.html), or are literally [currently underwater from flooding like Dallas.
](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/24/photos-flash-flooding-in-texas-forces-road-closures-and-rescues.html) [Seoul was hit with the most rain in 100 years](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/10/heavy-flood-damage-in-s-koreas-seoul-after-record-rains) and it killed several people.
Pakistan is currently having record breaking flooding as well.
Or it is falling still, but as quickly depleted rains [opposed to slow melting snow pack like in some areas of CA.] (https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/04/01/california-snowpack-summer-drought/) Where rain can even melt the snow and further make flooding an issue like what happened in Montana. So even if it is falling technically, snow melts slowly and can keep creeks and rivers sustained over time. Rain just washes away, and also melts snow on the ground.
Globally while there are droughts in some areas, there are also [deadly floods in others.](https://www.aljazeera.com/tag/floods/)
Specifically for Mead, there is still water flowing downstream for other lakes and rivers to provide water for other cities and ecosystems but less flowing in than out.
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