Dwindling Colorado River Forces First-Ever Cuts In Lake Powell Water Releases

'Unprecedented Water Crisis'
Creamy rocks at Lake Powell, Page, Arizona
Creamy rocks at Lake Powell, Page, Arizona

More than a dozen years of drought have begun to extract a heavy toll from water supplies in the West, where a report released last week forecast dramatic cuts next year in releases between the two main reservoirs on the Colorado River, the primary source of water for tens of millions of people across seven western states.

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