Lake Powell and Lake Mead could collapse without more water cuts along the Colorado River, a new paper explains – By Zak Podmore (The Salt Lake Tribune) / July 21, 2022
The peer-reviewed paper comes as Colorado River water users are planning for the biggest cutbacks in history.
Without significant, permanent cuts to water use in the Colorado River basin, both Lake Powell and Lake Mead may be headed for collapse.
That’s according to a new, peer-reviewed paper published in the journal Science this week that analyzed how current agreements between basin users would fare if the 23-year trend of below-average runoff in the basin continues.
The short answer is not well, despite layers of drought contingency plans that have been added in recent years to trigger increasing cutbacks for certain users as Lake Mead’s level drops.
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