Lake Mead and the Colorado River Basin

Inside Climate News
View In: Lake Mead and the Colorado River BasinWater levels in Lake Powell dropped to a new record low on Tuesday. The nation’s second-largest reservoir is under pressure from climate change and steady demand, and is now the lowest it’s been since it was first filled in the 1960s.  Water levels fell to 3,522.16 feet above sea level, just below th...

Zero Hedge News
View In: Lake Mead and the Colorado River BasinArizona Considers $5.5 Billion Water Desalination Plant, 200-Mile Pipeline From Mexico To Combat Drought Arizona's Water Infrastructure Finance Authority has been tasked with reviewing a proposal for a multibillion-dollar project to construct a water desalination plant in Mexico that would pump wate...

Inside Climate News
View In: Lake Mead and the Colorado River BasinThe Colorado River is shrinking at the hands of climate change, and the people who decide its future are caught in a standoff over how to share its water. Putting them all in the same room, then, is bound to breed some tension. The most powerful policymakers in the arid Southwest spent three days i...

Inside Climate News
View In: Lake Mead and the Colorado River BasinDeep in the bowels of the Glen Canyon Dam, an awful lot stays the same. Under the mass of concrete it’s pleasantly cool all year long, even when the Arizona sun beats down above. As the decades march on, the machinery inside remains unchanged, too. The dam’s innards are a time capsule of 1960s engineering...

Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
View In: Lake Mead and the Colorado River Basin“The problem with massive projects like Lake Powell and the Glen Canyon Dam,” said one climate journalist, “is they were engineered for a climate that no longer exists.“ Via: @Snoro@mastodon.social