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KnitWit@lemmy.world 1 week agoDrove past Glen Canyon dam the other day. Everything in the area has high water due to early snow melt, and yet powell lake and glen canyon are noticeably low. Gonna be bad year for anyone downstream.
grue@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s gonna be a bad entire foreseeable future. The laws governing how much water can be used from the Colorado River were all made during an unusual wet spell that they mistook for normal; it can’t actually supply that much. Unless the politicians manage to get their shit together and reduce the allocations, levels are just going to get worse and worse and worse until there’s nothing left, even if the weather isn’t bad.