When Rose Davis read news reports last week that Nevada’s Lake Mead would sink by about 20 feet by January 2019, she jumped out of her seat. Davis is a media relations spokeswoman for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, and the announced decline came as a surprise – especially because BOR, which measures the water levels at Lake Mead, had predicted no such decline. According to Davis, water levels at Lake Mead remain stable, and the Bureau predicts no water shortages in leading up to 2019.