Arizona will have to learn to live with less water from the Colorado River.
Highlights
- A twenty-two-year drought across the West, compounded by climate change has caused historic shortages on the river and the lakes that store it.
- The river accounts for 40% of Arizona’s water supply.
- Lake Powell sits on the Arizona-Utah border and is the second-largest reservoir on river.
- But its water level has fallen within 30 feet of dead pool elevation.
- That is the point where water could no longer be released through the Glen Canyon Dam which would also prevent its generation of electricity.
- Earlier this week, the U.S.