Lake Mead
Lake Mead
Water shortages in Lake Powell, Lake Mead likelier than previously thought
Compared with an average year, only 55% of Colorado River water is flowing from the Rocky Mountains down to Lake Powell on the Utah-Arizona line
Western U.S. faces reckoning over water, but avoids cuts for now
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is expected to release projections Friday that suggest Lake Powell and Lake Mead will dip slightly in 2021
Even after a rush of snow and rain, the thirsty Colorado River Basin is “not out of the woods yet”
It will take as many as 13 water years exactly like this one to erase the impacts of long-term drought in the West, Colorado River District engineers say
