Colorado River crisis deepens as Lake Mead and Lake Powell hit record-low levels

In the past 10 days, both Lake Mead, on the Arizona-Nevada border and Lake Powell, roughly 300 miles northeast on the Utah-Arizona line, have recorded their lowest water levels since the reservoirs were first filled. Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir, supplying water to Nevada, Arizona and California, measured 1,040.4 feet above sea level on […]