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Peter GleickLake Powell on the Colorado River is set to receive 13% of its normal spring runoff, the lowest amount from upstream snowmelt on record.
#climatechange
#water
https://coloradosun.com/2026/05/09/lake-powell-forecast-water-flows-record-low/
smeg@petergleick lowest record... so far
Mike@petergleick If ever a dam should not have been built...
Jim Hubbell@petergleick
Does that include the water they are robbing from Flaming Gorge?
Does that include the water they are robbing from Flaming Gorge?
Maria Langer | 📝🛥️💎@petergleick @User47 I am heartbroken. I love that lake.
JL Johnson 
@mlanger @petergleick Too bad everyone downstream of Vegas couldn’t bother to be as water conscious as them. Feels weird to praise a city of excess but apparently they are AWESOME with water management
@User47 @petergleick I know that in some places they make certain water-saving activities — like watering plants with household gray water — illegal. That doesn't help.
And do we really need so many golf courses?
@mlanger @petergleick That's a no for me. But the billionaires disagree and everyone knows they get to call the shots even though there are way more of us than them.....
@User47 @petergleick They need to play cowboy golf out in the desert where the cart is a horse and the golf bag is a jeans leg sewn closed on one end with a strap attached. Now THAT'S a challenge.
SpaceLifeFormWhat Mother Nature giveth, Mother Nature takes away.
I am glad I don't live in the US Southwest.
The water flow may drop too low to generate power by August.
Flaming Cheeto@petergleick The least, the LEAST, we should do to start climate migration pre-catastrophe mode is to eliminate mortgage interest deductions for places like Phoenix and Vegas.
The federal government shouldn't subsidize relocation to places that will be uninhabitable in a few decades.