August 16th, 2026

The Colorado River Is Shrinking. See How Authorities Are Trying to Save It.

The Wall Street Journal has published a graphic-rich article on the declining water levels in both Lake Powell and Lake Mead. Here’s the key graphic:

August 3rd, 2026

Lake Powell AZ and Lake Mead NV

Bureau of Reclamation Issues Final Environmental Impact Statement on Critically Low Storage in the Colorado River Basin

This Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) has been prepared to inform the Secretary’s timely
adoption of a new set of objective guidelines that improve predictability to all water users and managers
in the Basin. Developing new guidelines is difficult in this complex Basin, where critically low storage in
Lake Powell and Lake Mead, significant hydrologic variability, and the anticipation of drier future
conditions amplify the central tradeoff: balancing the potentially profound impacts of water-delivery
reductions with the need to maintain reservoir storage.

The report is below and is a downloadable .pdf file.

Arizona facing deep Colorado River cuts under ‘unacceptable’ federal plan.

Arizona expected to take a 31% cut in Colorado River supplies (Stunning Images)

A new plan for the dwindling Colorado River falls short of what’s needed, experts say (Washington Post)

The Colorado River supplies water or energy to nearly 40 million people in Arizona, Nevada and Southern California. Well, maybe not 40 million, but millions and millions of people will be impacted by cutbacks in water allocations ordered by the Bureau of Reclamation to the three states. The first phase of cutbacks has begun, and water deliveries have been reduced by 27% this year. Next year, the Bureau of Reclamation could reduce the deliveries of water by as much as 40% of the historic allotments agreed to in the seven-state Colorado River Compact, and some are saying the Central Arizona Project could run dry.

Arizona’s future with massive cuts in CAP water: What to know

Water levels in Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the two largest reservoirs in the desert southwest of the United States, are fast approaching the line of becoming “Dead Pools”. The lower two reservoirs on the Colorado River, Lake Mojave and Lake Havasu, are kept full. The upper two and the largest by far, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, are approaching “Dead Pool” status.

Dead pool is the elevation at which Lake Powell’s surface drops below the lowest outlet works of Glen Canyon Dam, meaning water can no longer be released downstream by gravity www.lakepowellwaterlevel.com. This threshold is 3,370 feet above sea level (USGS survey: ~3,372.91 ft; Bureau of Reclamation: 3,370 ft) 

California Wineries Fall on Hard Times, Burning Vineyards.

Here comes the rain, El Nino developing into a freight train.

California to dry-up 20% of the breadbasket to the world, destroying 85,000 jobs.

Bookmark of the week: https://geoengineeringwatch.org/

Latest weekly Geoengineering Report from Dane Wigington (Megadrought and Nanoparticles)

He who controls the weather controls the world!

Megadrought doom from Michael Snyder (who else?).

Coverup: UN Climate Panel Quietly Admits Its Doomsday Climate Scenarios Were ‘Implausible’.