‘The system is at a tipping point’: Feds say unprecedented cuts needed to balance Colorado River water budget, prop up Lake Powell

“Unprecedented is now the reality and the normal in which Reclamation must manage our systems,” said Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton.

(Ecoflight) An aerial view of Navajo Canyon on Lake Powell, Thursday, April 14, 2022.

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Zak PodmoreSoutheast Utah reporter

Zak is the southeast Utah reporter for The Tribune. He has been writing from Bluff, Utah, since 2015 and is the author of Confluence: Navigating the Personal & Political On Rivers of the New West. His second book, which will cover the decline of Lake Powell, is forthcoming from Torrey House Press in 2024.