The latest forecasts come after water managers announced emergency action to prop up the reservoir's dwindling levels.

Very dry and warm weather in the winter and early spring means Colorado River flows into Lake Powell will hit record lows ...

Officials have started reducing water release from Lake Powell to prevent water levels from becoming too low for ...

Colorado River Basin Forecast Center hydrologist Cody Moser was frank Thursday, May 7, as he gave his final update for the ...

The turbines inside Glen Canyon Dam need Lake Powell to stay above 3,490 feet. As of late May 2026, the reservoir sits barely ...

Lake Powell, one of t River’s most important reservoirs, is set to receive 13% of its normal spring runoff, the lowest amount from upstream snowmelt on record, according to ...

Emergency releases seek to boost Lake Powell, but warnings have been issues over the moves' potential impacts.

With a historic drought hitting the Colorado River basin, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is making preparations to slow releases from the river’s largest reservoir while increasing withdrawals from an ...

Canyons in eastern Utah will churn this spring with huge volumes of water — as much as 50,000 toilets flushing constantly at the same time — in a desperate attempt to maintain electricity generation ...

Widespread drought and fears of a power crisis forced the Interior Department to start sending billions of gallons of water from Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Colorado downstream to prop up Lake Powell.