This is your fault ....you are to blame .....if you live in and around this place......... and use the water........ and such like .....no !!!!!....not ...... me........ i live in florida ......... but if you use this .......it is your fault........people are selfish cunts........ and do not care about water........ and such like stuff ......until...... it affects them....... then they get bothered....... if you stopped ....... breeding for one thing ...... over population ......and........ other shit stuff thrown in .....but the climate is fucked ......... it has been fucked for years ...... and all the global warming bollocks........ i do not buy it ........ it is fear based ........ for the minions to pay ......... more money that is all .......global warming ....... the earth will kill us........ before we kill it ....... for sure .....we had ice age .....and then the other stone bolloxks .....that wiped out shit and the ice age too it is all lies to get you to spend money no one know who the fuck done what did they just what the cunts teach you in s chool .....pure bollocks ........
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Lake Powell hits lowest summer level ever, raising risk of 'dead pool'
Lake Powell ‒ the massive Colorado River reservoir that produces power for millions of homes across the West ‒ is the emptiest it has ever been entering the hottest part of the summer. And the worst is still to come.
Although the lake's levels have briefly fallen lower in years past, those low-water levels came in the spring, before melting snow refilled it. This year, that refill never happened.
As a result, Lake Powell will next spring fall to "minimum power pool," according to a newly released federal projection. If the water levels fall below that, the Glen Canyon Dam would stop generating electricity.
Why is Lake Powell so low? Winters are shorter now across the U.S. - look up your county here
"This outcome is not a reflection of recent drought response actions, but rather a clear reminder that the Colorado River remains vulnerable," the federal Bureau of Reclamation wrote of its June 15 prediction.
If the water level falls even further, it could create environmental catastrophe by stopping the Colorado River flowing through the Grand Canyon, a point known as "dead pool." That is generally considered by experts to be an unlikely scenario because federal managers would likely create new outlets in the dam before it happens.
The amount of water in the reservoir has slowly been dropping as long-term climate change creates a warmer and drier West. Today, the lake is 23.28% full. It was last completely full in 1983.
Federal water managers have already been sucking water out of other reservoirs in Colorado and Wyoming to slow Lake Powell's decline. But their predictions also show Lake Powell's water level will nevertheless continue dropping until late next spring, when this coming winter's snow begins to melt.
A wet fall caused by a super El Niño weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean could help, but water experts say it won't reverse the long-term trends.
The lake's level typically bottoms out each spring before melting snow begins refilling it through early summer. But this year's winter was catastrophically dry, and water experts say water releases from smaller upstream reservoirs will be needed to prevent the lake from dropping below the power pool level.
Lake managers have begun extending boat ramps in preparation for ongoing low levels, and workers recently floated the entire Bullfrog Marina across the lake into deeper water at Halls Crossing in Utah. The area draws an estimated 4 million recreation visitors annually to houseboat, water ski and kayak on the lake and its scenic side canyons, along with the Rainbow Bridge rock arch.
In Page, Arizona, the small city next to the dam, tourism has taken a hit because of news coverage of the lake levels, city spokesman Adam Geller said. He said it's unclear how much is directly attributable to the lake level, given recent high gas prices and a slowdown in international tourism, but city hotel revenue has dropped 6% compared with this time last year.
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