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Lake Powells water levels have started to level off, but the reservoir is still in much better shape than a few months ago, according to a timelapse.

The lakes levels have recovered slightly after above-average snowfall supplemented the reservoir with snowpack melt.

The lakes water levels have risen sharply since the end of April when an outburst of water was released from the neighboring reservoir Lake Powell.

Nearly half a million homes in the Centennial State could be without water by 2050. Colorado River reservoir levels are in a free fall. And local farmers already don’t have the supplies they need. What happens next depends on what we do today.

Lake Powell has reached 3,521.77 feet above sea level, the lowest level since its construction in the 1960s.

Snowpack may be used to fill Lake Powell rather than Lake Mead, as officials try to plan the future of the drying up reservoirs.

Lake Powells water levels have plunged drastically as a result of the southwestern megadrought.

San Diegans depend on the Colorado River, and they have to make some tough decisions in the next year.

Big river talks with state, tribal, and local representatives to headline the September 16 event at Colorado Mesa University.

Several of Colorados water experts on Thursday noted that the federal governments plan for tackling dwindling Colorado River reservoirs is "light" on the next steps but that the rivers condition