Officials have indicated that Lake Powell, the nation's second-largest reservoir by capacity, could potentially see water levels drop low enough to halt hydropower generation by December 2026.

If the next two years are drier than usual, Lake Powell’s water levels could drop too low to generate electricity, federal report says.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which operates the major dams in the Colorado River system, is evaluating issues related to Glen Canyon Dam when Lake Powell reaches low levels.

Damage at Glen Canyon Dam has Colorado River users concerned. Newly discovered damage to part of the dam holding back America's second-largest reservoir has the 40 million people who rely on the ...

LAKE POWELL, Ariz. — In a major push to curtail water use on the Colorado River, The Bureau of Reclamation asked the seven states that draw its water to cut their use by 2 to 4 million acre-feet.

While the Glen Canyon Dam generates electricity for 5.8 million customers across Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and Nebraska, Beard and his allies point to Reclamation’s ...

At elevation 3,430 feet, the volume that the dam could push downstream would drop below the 7.5 million acre-feet that the Colorado River Compact requires upstream states to supply to the states ...

Glen Canyon Dam holds back Lake Powell in Page, Ariz., on July 18. Glen Canyon Dam is the second-highest concrete arch dam in the United States at 710 feet tall.

The Glen Canyon Dam with Colorado River flowing out below on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, in Page, AZ. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images Water is released from Glen Canyon Dam ...

Plumbing problem at Glen Canyon Dam brings new threat to Colorado River system Plumbing problems at the dam holding back the second-largest reservoir in the U.S. are spurring concerns about future ...

Let’s also remember that Glen Canyon Dam was finished in 1963 and it and Lake Powell are only 58 years old. The region lived without them before, and it can live without them again.

A set of four tubes known as the "river outlet works," pictured on Nov. 2, 2022, could soon be the only way for water to make it through Glen Canyon Dam.