Lake Powell

Lake Mead Water Level Reaches Alarming Threshold

The New York Times | Felicity Barringer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nevada, Sonoran Desert, Water Management, Lake Mead, Western Water Rights, Lake Powell, Colorado River, Arizona, Pheonix, Las Vegas, Denver News

LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA, Nev. -- A once-unthinkable day is looming on the Colorado River...

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In the West, Climate and Energy Policy Is Water Policy

Dan Grossman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drought, Lake Mead, Brian Schweitzer, Renewable Energy, Clean Air-Clean Jobs Act, Climate Change, Clean Energy, Lake Powell, Denver News
Dan Grossman

The extended droughts of the past may become the norm of the future. So what should we do about this bleak situation?

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Colorado Snowpack Deficiencies Could Lead To Severe Droughts In Summer

Aspen Times | John Colson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drought, Colorado Snowpack, Gulf of California, Colorado River Water Conservation District, Lake Powell, Colorado River, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Denver News

GLENWOOD SPRINGS - A Colorado River expert is warning that there may be serious water shortages here and further west next summer, if the Colorado hig...

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Ken Salazar To Release Water Into Grand Canyon

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Glen Canyon Dam, Grand Canyon, Flooding, Interior Secretary, Manmade Flood, High Flow, Ken Salazar, Colorado River, Lake Powell, Release Water, Video, Denver News

Interior secretary Ken Salazar is calling for the Colorado River to be flooded in order protect habitats and archeological sites in the grand canyon. ...

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Red Snow Warning: The End of Welfare Water and the Drying of the West

Chip Ward | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Water-Policy, Lake Powell, Lake Mead, Water, Climate Change, Hoover Dam, Colorado River, Green News
Chip Ward

We are now dangerously close to the limits of what the Colorado River can provide, even in the very best of weather scenarios, and the weather is being neither so friendly nor cooperative these days.

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Exploring the Grand Canyon: Only the Brave and Hardy

Kate Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Exploring the West, Grand Canyon, Lake Powell, John Wesley Powell, Lake Mead, Grand Canyon Rapids, Grand Canyon Hiking, Politics News
Kate Kelly

One hundred and forty years ago this summer, a one-armed Civil War veteran, John Wesley Powell (1834-1902), led the first full exploration of the Grand Canyon.

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