Dry Colorado River Forecast Gets Drier. Challenges ahead as snowpack fails to produce much runoff.
What a difference a month makes.
The forecast for how much water will flow this year into Lake Powell, a bellwether reservoir on the Colorado River, was already meager. Now, after a dry April, it’s even more miserly.
That does not bode well for a basin mired in contentious debate about which of the seven states should cut their water use and by how much.
“It provides even more urgency to what was already an urgent situation,” said Anne Castle, former U.S. commissioner and chair of the Upper Colorado River Commission.
