(St. George, UT) — Lake Powell is expected to receive a five-percent increase from the snowmelt process this summer. The National Weather Service’s Colorado Basin River Forecast Center says just under five-and-half-million acre feet of water will be added to the lake. The amount of water is still not the […]
(Undated) — Utah’s reservoirs are in really good shape after a historically wet winter. The state’s reservoir capacity is above 80-percent, according to the Utah Division of Water Resources. Eighteen of the state’s 45 biggest reservoirs are at 100-percent or higher and 20 others are between 80- and 99-point-nine percent […]
KENSINGTON, Maryland (AP) — A two-decade-long dry spell that has parched much of the western United States is turning into one of the deepest mega-droughts in the region in more than 1,200 years, a new study found. And about half of this historic drought can be blamed on man-made global […]
