Lake Mead Water Supply Given Hope From Rockies Snowpack
Heavy snowfall in the Rocky Mountains could spell good news for the embattled reservoir as it recovers from historic droughts ...
Will Lake Powell become Lake Mud? Inside the growing sediment crisis
In 1963, the Glen Canyon Dam was built. It created Lake Powell Reservoir, which straddles Utah and Arizona, to ensure a water ...
Newsweek8d
Lake Powell Faces Sediment Crisis: '30,000 Dump Truck Loads' per Day
Created in 1963 by constructing the Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powell was intended to be a critical water storage reservoir for ...
The Colorado River is in a custody battle with 7 states
The Colorado River is managed like a joint bank account — seven states have equal shares of two basins, and not a single drop ...
The Salt Lake Tribune6d
Will Lake Powell become Lake Mud? It has a growing sediment crisis.
In 1963, the Glen Canyon Dam was built. It created Lake Powell Reservoir, which straddles Utah and Arizona, to ensure a water supply for the lower Colorado River basin states and Mexico.
Lake Powell Faces Sediment Crisis: '30,000 Dump Truck Loads' per Day
Lake Powell, an iconic centerpiece of the Colorado River Basin and the second-largest reservoir in the United States, is ...
Hosted on MSN2d
Lake Powell: Water Rule Change Could Have Saved 28.5 Billion Gallons
As Lake Powell and other vital water sources in the Colorado River Basin face increasing stress, researchers are calling attention to a simple yet critical legal reform that could help secure the ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel21h
A century-old practice allows people to use more than their legal share of Colorado River water
One acre-foot roughly equals the annual water use of two to three households. The 21,400 acre-feet that typically disappears ...
USA Today1d
What will it take to end 3 decades of drought in Arizona?
The Colorado River has declined in recent years, with decreased streamflows and lower water levels in Lake Mead and Lake ...