CNN
- The combined water level in
two of the United States’ biggest reservoirs, Lake Powell and Lake Mead, has
fallen to a historic low, in what experts are calling a significant moment in
the Colorado River crisis — threatening a water system that supplies tens of
millions. On July 12, Lake Powell was at
3,524 feet and Lake Mead was just under 1,043 feet, breaking a record set in
March 2023, according to an analysis published by five Colorado River experts
last week. Together, the two reservoirs haven’t been this low since 1957,
during the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam, before Lake Powell even
existed.
July 23, 2026
Low water levels
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With the continuing climate catastrophe we are going to have to totally rethink the west. There are more people there than there is water to support and we are going to have to totally rethink irrigating farmland in the desert. The US is going to have to grow more of its food in the East where there is enough water, and instead of running hydro electric dams the west is going to have to totally go solar. Neither party has been great about water policy in the west, controlled by archaic laws and give aways to the rich, but Republicans are trying to undo the protection of forests that protects the water and give it away faster while making the planet hotter. All they are doing is undercutting the entire economy with their greed.
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