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Wet La Nina winter likely to bring more water into Lake Powell

LAS VEGAS — One of the Colorado River’s two major reservoirs is expected to collect better than average runoff this year, thanks to an unusually wet La Nina pattern that dropped a deluge of snow up and down the basin.

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Q&A: Colorado River crisis brings ‘very dry’ reality to US West

Al Jazeera speaks to UN expert Lis Mullin Bernhardt about need to adapt to historic drought’s impact on key US waterway.

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As climate change and overuse shrink Lake Powell, the emergent landscape is coming back to life – and posing new challenges

As Western states haggle over reducing water use because of declining flows in the Colorado River Basin, a more hopeful drama is playing out in Glen Canyon.

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Colorado River crisis is so severe, Lake Mead and Lake Powell are unlikely to refill in our lifetimes

LOS ANGELES — The snowpack in the Sierra Nevada is the deepest it’s been in decades, but those storms that were a boon for Northern California won’t make much of a dent in the long-term water shortage for the Colorado River Basin — an essential source of supplies for Southern…

Los Angeles Times

Water war brewing over Colorado River

Diminished by climate change and overuse, the river can no longer provide the water states try to take from it

Salon

Federal officials say urgent action needed to protect shrinking Colorado River reservoirs

LAS VEGAS — With Colorado River reservoirs nearing dangerously low levels, the federal government has given basin states a Jan. 31 deadline to negotiate major water cuts and stave off a possible collapse in supplies.

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Growing fears of ‘dead pool’ on Colorado River as drought threatens Hoover Dam water

LAS VEGAS — The Colorado River’s largest reservoirs stand nearly three-quarters empty, and federal officials now say there is a real danger the reservoirs could drop so low that water would no longer flow past Hoover Dam in two years.

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Colorado River water users convening amid crisis concerns

Living with less water in the U.S. Southwest is the focus this week for a conference in Las Vegas about the drought-stricken and overpromised Colorado River

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Conservation talks expected at Colorado River water users confab

LAS VEGAS — As western water managers get set to gather in Las Vegas this week, a long-sought deal to curtail water use along the cratering Colorado River still seems a ways off.

Tribune News Service

Flaming Gorge falls as drought felt higher up Colorado River

A boating and fishing paradise on the Utah-Wyoming line is beginning to feel the effects of the two-decade megadrought gripping the southwestern U.S. Until now, Flaming Gorge Reservoir hasn't seen anything like the low water that has drastically shrunk Lake Mead near Las Vegas and Lake Powell in Arizona and…

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Farming, water and Wall Street on Colorado’s Western Slope

Since 2000, flows on the Colorado River have declined 20% and water levels at Lake Powell and Lake Mead have dropped to less than 30% of their combined storage

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A lost world returns with a warning

America's mega-drought is revealing natural wonders unseen in decades. But their return from the watery depths heralds a deepening crisis.

ABC News

As Lake Powell goes, so goes the West

As climate change dries the Colorado River Basin, the region's megacities may eventually dry up, too

Salon

EXPLAINER: Winners, losers in water cuts for Western states

People in Arizona and Nevada won’t face bans on watering their lawns or washing their cars despite water shortages on the Colorado River

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US government steps in over drought-savaged Colorado River with water cuts for Arizona, Nevada and Mexico

Lake Mead and Lake Powell at historic lows, with combined 28 per cent capacity

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The West’s most important water supply is drying up. Soon, life for 40 million people who depend on the Colorado River will change

PAGE, Ariz. — White sandstone cliffs create a ring around Lake Powell in contrast to the honey- and red-colored desert rock nearby. Evidence that water once, not all that long ago, filled America’s second-largest reservoir.

The Guardian - US

As drought shrivels Lake Powell, millions face power crisis

With water levels falling ‘lower than thought possible’ at Glen Canyon dam, energy production could halt as soon as July 2023

Los Angeles Times

As Colorado River reservoirs drop, Western states urged to ‘act now’

With the Colorado River’s depleted reservoirs continuing to drop to new lows, the federal government has taken the unprecedented step of telling the seven Western states that rely on the river to find ways of drastically cutting the amount of water they take in the next two months.

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Biologists try to save ancient fish as Colorado River fades

A key fish that has dwelt in the Colorado River since ancient times, and whose presence indicates a healthy river, is now up against a threat from a giant dam above

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Sudden Rockslide At Lake Powell Stuns Tourists, Sends Boaters Fleeing Large Wave

The avalanche, which may have ties to the drought in the West, launched a plume of water and created a massive wave in its wake.

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What is dead pool? A water expert explains

Journalists reporting on the status and future of the Colorado River are increasingly using the phrase “dead pool.” It sounds ominous. And it is.

The Guardian - US

Arizona braces for additional water cuts amid megadrought

State water authorities are expecting a further decline in the amount of water received from the Colorado River in August

Los Angeles Times

As drought crisis deepens, government will release less water from Colorado River reservoir

After years of severe drought compounded by climate change, the water level in Lake Powell, the second-largest reservoir on the Colorado River, has dropped to just 24% of full capacity and is continuing to decline to levels not seen since the reservoir was filled in the 1960s.

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US to hold back Lake Powell water to protect hydropower

Federal water officials have announced that they will keep hundreds of billions of gallons of Colorado River water inside Lake Powell instead of letting it flow downstream to southwestern states and Mexico

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In drought-stricken West, officials weigh emergency actions

Federal officials say it may be necessary to reduce water delivers to Colorado River users to prevent the shutdown of a huge dam on the Arizona-Utah border

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