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Climate change, not data centers, behind Colorado River drought
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (819+ words) "Lake Powell dropped 34 feet in one year. Data centers are guzzling water while our reservoirs are drying up," says text over an August 21, 2026 Facebook reel. On X, another user claimed: "There are many Data Centers that have been put in…...
Water levels will drop at three Connecticut lakes. Here's when it starts.
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (448+ words) Starting mid-October, FirstLight will be lowering the water levels at Lake Zoar, Lake Lillinonah and Candlewood Lake as part of its annual drawdown. FirstLight lowers the water levels each winter at the three lakes in the system as part of…...
The Colorado River basin is running out of water
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (973+ words) by Emily Gardner - Thursday, Sep 10th, 2026 Though overallocation is one reason the river is shrinking, reduced snowpack and increased evaporation caused by climate change are also contributing factors. The Upper Basin states—Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming—are not facing…...
How Much Water The Colorado River Has Lost Since 2000
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (670+ words) WorldAtlas Since the year 2000, the Colorado River has been quietly living beyond its means, handing out more water than nature returns to it. So how much has it actually lost? The number is genuinely staggering, but the full story is…...
On the water front: no problems expected
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (696+ words) Executive Director Aaron Baker briefed the Anthem Community Council on the water front. Not unlike the Roman Empire, which had one Rome-anchored quadrant and another headquartered in Constantinople, Anthem’s water front is split into eastern and western empires. Neither of…...
What Happens If The Snowpack Fails Two Years In A Row
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (1392+ words) Here is what actually happens, in order, when the snow fails twice. Not a metaphor. Colorado's snowpack stores roughly 15 million acre-feet of water at its spring peak, which is a volume comparable to a major reservoir, and it releases that…...
Water has returned to parts of the Spokane Riverbed that ran dry this summer
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (428+ words) SPOKANE, Wash. — After weeks of running dry, water has returned to stretches of the Spokane River following Avista's annual post-Labor Day increase in water releases through the Post Falls Dam. The transformation happened quickly. Just days before, visitors could walk…...
What's next for the Colorado River?
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (298+ words) If we continue with the body metaphor for the contemporary management of the Colorado River system, additional agreements (or the nerves that trigger certain action) were added to the body. As of Friday, August 24, the Bureau of Reclamation released three…...
The Colorado River Crisis Has a Blind Spot
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (1717+ words) We need to talk about the Colorado River. It feels like all I can think about as someone who lives in one of the seven states that depend on this 1,450-mile body of water. Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico,…...
Dominion Energy to lower Lake Murray water level this fall
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (262+ words) In consultation with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and the South Carolina Department of Environmental Services, Dominion Energy says it will begin a drawdown of Lake Murray this fall. Dam operators will begin lowering the lake this month,…...