Drought causes Lake Powel’s capacity to deplete
According to a new analysis, Lake Powell, the US’s second-largest man-made reservoir, has lost roughly 7% of its potential storage capacity since Glen Canyon Dam was built in 1963. Between 1963 and 2018, Lake Powell lost an average annual storage capacity of around 33,270 acre-feet, or 11 billion gallons, due to a multiyear drought, according … Read more