‘It’s incredibly bad’: No end in sight to Colorado River water crisis

‘It’s incredibly bad’: No end in sight to Colorado River water crisis

by Dustin Bleizeffer, WyoFile The outlook for the Colorado River, and Lake Powell in particular, continues to worsen due to an historically warm winter and dismal snowpack. Projections show that Lake Powell on the Utah-Arizona border could drop low enough this year that it stops producing hydroelectric power at the Glen Canyon Dam. If it drops even lower, the dam is in danger of structural failure. Wyoming relies on some of that hydroelectric po…