A third set of human remains has been discovered near one of the beaches at Lake Mead in Nevada, the National Park Service said.

Park rangers received notice of the discovery around 4.30pm Monday at Swim Beach in Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

Rangers have set a perimeter around the area to recover the remains. It’s unclear whether low water levels at Lake Mead played a role in the finding.

Water levels at the lake, the nation’s largest reservoir located on state lines between Nevada and Arizona, have hit historic lows this year as the western portion of the country experiences a severe drought.

The Clark County Medical Examiner has been contacted to identify the body and determine the cause of death in the latest remains discovered. The investigation is ongoing and no further information was provided by the National Park Service.

So far this year, two other sets of remains have been found as water levels shrink at Lake Mead.

In early May, the remains of a person murdered decades ago were discovered hidden in a barrel submerged at the bottom of the lake. The remains washed to shore as water levels dropped significantly.

Following an investigation, officials shared that the person whose body was discovered inside the corroding barrel was a murder victim who had died of a gunshot wound.

The clothes on the person led investigators to believe they were killed in the 1970s or 1980s. When the barrel containing the body was dropped in Lake Mead, the site was likely hundreds of yards from the beach. The area that is now the beach likely was fully underwater in the 1980s, according to officials.

Days later, a second set of remains were discovered half-buried in the sand in Callville Bay, within the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

Satellite images recently released by NASA show how the lake, which supplies water from the Colorado River to 25million people, has drastically receded.

‘The largest reservoir in the United States supplies water to millions of people across seven states, tribal lands, and northern Mexico. It now also provides a stark illustration of climate change and a long-term drought that may be the worst in the U.S. West in 12 centuries,’ NASA said.

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