Water levels at Lake Powell continue to fall as drought persists, pitting fish survival against power demands.
We are two and a half decades into the Southwest’s most severe drought of the last 1,200 years, and this winter’s snow dearth ...
A $40 billion plan proposes massive desalination plants to save the Colorado River, but critics call it "crazy." ...
Nevada’s access to water from the Colorado River depends on releases through Glen Canyon Dam, which impounds the river to form Lake Powell. The persistent drought in the southwest United States, ...
In the ongoing saga of the Colorado River water shortage, your March 1 article, “Dam’s failure foreseen,” left out important history. In the early 1960s, according to a Sierra Club book, ““The Place ...
The Glen Canyon Dam promised water and power — but the river had other plans. The Glen Canyon Dam once symbolized American engineering might. But the Colorado River it was built to tame is shrinking.
In 1998, when I was in fourth grade, I joined a class field trip to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. But when we got to Cortez, the road was barricaded. Hours earlier, three men had stolen a ...
The Glen Canyon Dam at Lake Powell in Arizona is set to receive $30.9 million in upgrades as part of President Joe Biden's Investing in America agenda, an initiative designed to modernize water ...
The hydropower plant that powers about a quarter of a million homes is run by a team of mechanics, electricians and more. By Luna Anna Archey / High Country News Published Jun 23, 2022 9:00 PM EDT ...
The scanty snowpack accumulating this winter in the Colorado River headwaters is threatening Glen Canyon Dam’s hydropower production and complicating an already fraught balancing act for the Southwest ...
In 1998, when I was in fourth grade, I joined a class field trip to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. But when we got to Cortez, the road was barricaded. Hours earlier, three men had stolen a ...