(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) A boat tows a water skier below the "bathtub rings" in Glen Canyon Recreation Area, on Wednesday, July 13, 2022. Barring massive changes to the way the west uses water, the massive reservoir on the Colorado River appears to be headed toward a calamity.
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.