> The nation’s Western drought is so severe that federal predictions of Colorado River flows into Lake Powell for 2021 dropped by the equivalent of 10 Lake Dillons in just six months, according to a key new report.
In issuing the report Friday, U.S. water engineers said they will for the first time take water from Flaming Gorge, Blue Mesa and Navajo Reservoirs to protect electric power production at Lake Powell’s Glen Canyon Dam, where water levels are in danger of falling below the electric turbine intakes.