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Hydrologists said in December that Lake Powell’s runoff would be 92% of average. In January, the forecast dropped to 81%, ...
Lake Powell sits on the border of Arizona and Utah. The massive reservoir attracts vacationers each year, while some own ...
"We're kind of on a knife's edge between being OK and being in very scary, catastrophic situations," one nonprofit group told ...
Fly over the striking desert waters of Lake Powell, where red rock canyons meet vivid blue water in a surreal landscape ...
But that decent snowpack, after melting, hasn’t filled reservoirs like Lake Mead and Lake Powell as much as water users across the West might like, due to years of drought and overuse.
Weeks after the surface of Lake Powell sunk to an all-time low, the key Colorado River reservoir is rising more than a foot a day — on track to deepen by some 70 feet in the coming months.
In the meantime, Lake Powell – the country’s second-largest reservoir – has struggled to serve even the places it currently provides water to. Last week it sank to the lowest water level ...
If you want to see the Colorado River change in real time, head to Lake Powell. At the nation’s second-largest reservoir, water levels recently dipped to the lowest they’ve been since 1968.
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The massive lake acts like a savings bank for water users, but the account balance is low enough to make officials from across the West nervous Coloradans might know of Lake Powell from sun-filled ...
LAKE POWELL, Utah — Muddy water whizzed past as John Weisheit steered a motorboat upstream in the Colorado River. He revved the engine as the boat sped around a bend and up a riffle. All along ...